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The editorial team

Updated 30 October 2026

The PDF to CAD Handbook is written by a small editorial team of CAD users: people who draft floor plans, model parts and prepare files for laser and CNC machines, and who get sent PDF drawings every week. Every guide is published under the team name, and every guide follows the same method, explained below.

What does the team cover?

The handbook has one job: help you convert PDF to CAD in whatever program or machine you use. That means three kinds of guides:

Guide type	What it answers	Typical example
Program guides	How to get a PDF into one CAD, CAM or design program	PDF into AutoCAD, FreeCAD, SketchUp, Fusion, LibreCAD
Job guides	How to prepare a drawing for one task	Laser cutting, CNC, architectural plans
Problem guides	Why a conversion went wrong and how to fix it	Wrong scale, wrong units, scanned drawings

How is a guide made?

From question to published guide

Pick the questionfrom real searches and reader questions

Test iton the handbook test drawings, in the program itself

Check every stepmenu paths and commands against the vendor documentation

Write and publishwith the measured results, screenshots and a date

Software changes, so a guide is only as good as its last check. When a program changes its PDF or DXF import, the guide is re-tested and the date at the top changes. The test drawings and the scoring are public: see how we test PDF to CAD converters.

5test drawings with known sizes, used for every method

0.001 mmprecision we measure converted outlines to

1set of scoring rules, the same for every tool

Source: handbook test method, October 2026

The handbook's A3 floor plan test drawing at 1:50: a two-bedroom apartment with walls, doors, room names and dimensions 10 000 and 7 200 — One of the five test drawings: an A3 floor plan at 1:50. Guides about scale, units and architectural plans use it to measure results.

What do we promise readers?

Tested, not copied. Steps come from doing the conversion, not from other articles.
Numbers with a source. Every measurement comes from a test file you can download, every price and version from the vendor’s own page, with a date.
Honest limits. When a method loses text, layers or scale, the guide says so before you find out.
No paid placements. Software makers cannot buy a mention or a position in a list.
Open about the sister tool. The free converter on convertpdftocad.com is run by the same team; it goes through the same tests as every other tool.

How do you reach the team?

Questions, corrections and requests for a program we don’t cover yet go through the contact form. The about page has more on why the handbook exists.

Questions people ask

Who writes the guides?

The handbook's editorial team: people who draft, model and cut parts in CAD and convert PDF drawings as part of that work. Guides are published under the team name.

Are the guides sponsored?

No. No software maker pays for a place or a mention. The only tool we are connected to is the free converter on convertpdftocad.com, our sister site, and every guide that mentions it says so.

How do I report a mistake?

Use the contact form and name the guide and the step. We check it on the same test files and correct the guide, with a new date at the top.