What is the similar command to overkill (Autocad command) in creo ?

[ppandarkar-2]

Hi..

I want to know the similar command of overkill which is available in autocad.

we want to remove duplicate / overlapping entities from drawing (dxf / cgm).

So please can you suggest me similar command in creo.

Regards,

Prashant Pandarkar

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[BenLoosli]

There is no similar command in Creo.

The 'duplicate' lines in a view when sent to a plotter/printer are handled by the drivers so they are eliminated on the paper. With laser printers and inkjet plotters, the overplot of lines is not an issue the way it was with pen plotters.

[ppandarkar-2]

Actually we are not facing issue in printer / plotter. we are facing issue while creating pdf.

For offer drawing of one complete vehicle (Complete Truck) , it creates pdf upto 10MB and which is opening very slow also for zoom in / zoom out it performs slow on 4GB machine.

So how we can reduce drawing heaviness which creates pdf lightly. We got some pdf from other companies which having complete vehicle offer drawing pdf with 98KB only.

so please can you suggest me some another method / process to make light weight pdf.

Regards,

Prashant Pandarkar

[TomU]

Just out of curiosity, is there a lot of text in this PDF?

[ppandarkar-2]

No. we dont have lot of text in the pdf.

Just dimensions and some standard notes.

Regards,

Prashant

[BenLoosli]

What is the DPI setting of your PDF files.

600DPI is overkill since you can't see the difference between it and 150 or 100DPI.

Set the DPI value to something in the low 100 range.

[ppandarkar-2]

We set 300 dpi in pdf setting.

Because 100 is lower range and 600 is upper range so we set in middle of this.

Regards,

Prashant

[BenLoosli]

Try creating a PDF at 100 and see what happens.

File size should be about 40% of the 300DPI file size.

In relation to Tom's question: are there a lot of colors and/or shaded views in your files?

[ppandarkar-2]

Right now, I have created pdf for one drawing which gives me same file size for 100dpi, 300dpi and 600 dpi.

Below are the settings which we are using for export pdf.

- Prashant

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

I think Stroke All Fonts is the cause of big file size. Set Use TryeType fonts option for testing purposes, only and you will see ...

MH

[dschenken]

Try a search on "pdf file size" in the search box in the upper right corner of the page. This problem has been looked at before. If you look at previous answers you may have a solution, or at least a more specific question.

The top results I got are

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[dgschaefer]

I assume that you are using the the built in save as a PDF function, correct? I wonder if a print to PDF function would work better.  I thought that the print process removes duplicate lines.  If so, printing to the Acrobat PDF creator or a third part print based PDF creator or even printing to a post script file and running Distiller might produce a smaller file.

[ppandarkar-2]

Yes. We are using inbuilt creo export pdf function.

When i tried with print -> pdf creater / cute pdf  then it reduces the size but there is difficult to maintain required portion of drawing.

We need to create pdf for each sheet and the portion available in the drawing template/format only.

So need option in inbuilt creo only because we have one common server to export pdf for all data and settings should be same for all.

Regards,

Prashant Pandarkar

[dgschaefer]

Do some research on using PCF files to define plotting options.  You can control plot size, scaling, etc within the PCF file and that file can be used globally.  Within the PCF you can also specify a PNT file that controls line weights.  We do that here and all have access to the same print and PDF creation settings.  We use global mapkeys to streamline the process as well.

There have been many who have found a variety of limitations over the years with the built in PDF creator.  We've been printing to postscript and then running distiller since before Creo or Proe had a save to PDF function and it continues to work well for us.

[BenLoosli]

I did some testing a while back since our users were complaining that the image plotted from CreoView did not match the PDF printed from File-Save As-QuickPrint.

I found that the fonts change when using the QuickPrint to ODF function.

To get the same image as we got from creoView publishing, I instructed our users to use File-SaveAs-SaveACopy and change the file type to PDF.

Not saying this will cure the file size issue, as I did not check that, but it may.