This tutorials requires one visual lisp script for AutoCAD and one javascript for Photoshop. Doing so manually requires a lot of effort but by using two scripts we’ve created it all can be done with a few mouse clicks.
Next, rasterize all PDF files into Photoshop files and finally merge all Photoshop files together. To only way to preserve AutoCAD layers in Photoshop is to print or export each AutoCAD layer into a separate PDF file. After a lot of internet searching it was clear to us that there isn’t a simple, ready to go, solution for this. However, by doing so all layers from the original AutoCAD file will be merged together into a single layer in Photoshop. Converting AutoCAD files into Photoshop files is not very complicated, a simple PDF export from AutoCAD is all that it takes. We’ve been searching for a while for a simple way to convert AutoCAD drawings into Photoshop files preserving all layers.
