Forge Lightning Talks: Publishing Multiple Drawings into Single PDF using Forge Design Automation

Publishing multiple drawings into a single pdf is a common use case, for instance Design Views generated in Revit are often exported as AutoCAD drawings to be published into pdf file, to create a pdf file from multiple drawings today one has to use AutoCAD to open the each drawing in the application, verify if each of the drawing’s layout is initialized or not, and then add each drawing to publish list which is a laborious and time intensive work, through Forge Design Automation for AutoCAD with least effort at low cost the objective can be achieved. In order to achieve an AutoCAD plugin is prepared and hosted in cloud environment using Forge Design Automation, a web application is deployed to run hosted AutoCAD plugin in the cloud against user supplied multiple drawings, as it is web application it can be accessed across the globe. Author: Madhukar Moogala (https://twitter.com/Galakar)