Printing Autocad drawings

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I occassionally need to print out Autocad drawings that have been e-mailed to me for work. As I don't have Autocad I have been copying them to disk and taking them in to an office shop which charge me a huge amount per copy to print them. I do not need to manipulate the drawings at all -just look at them! Is there anyway of printing out Autocad drawings with out purchasing the software?
Thank you.
 
Maybe do a search for "Open Source" and "autocad" or similar terms to see if there are any free/open source applications that can open and print Autocad file formats?
 
Hi I sometimes use this free autocad viewer, from www.autodrawing.com
can be helpful, it usually prints in pdf format.
Only thing is not great for fine detail but you can zoom on this and print this finer detail if you wish.

Autocad (the company) have their own version too.

irishgurl:)
 
Try PDFFactoryPro

The trial version is fully functional, it just puts an ad on the side of the page.
Very high qualityPDF's. I plot from DWG to PDF before printing, PDF's seem to print much faster than Autocad.

Edit

Sorry, I see you don't have Autocad so the above is no use.
What you need is a converter like DWG to PDF
 
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