I've only used this on Windows, but Ghostscript and Ghostview will do it. Set up a printer in I-DEAS to output to PostScript file then open the .ps file with Ghostview and then convert it to PDF. It's free.
You MIGHT have to configure a separate PostScript plotter/printer. I don't use I-DEAS often but I am an NX veteran and it uses the exact same plotting from SDI.
File -> Print and from the SDI menu, pick your plotter/printer then over towards the right side you'll see 3 checkboxes. Pick Print to File and choose the save location.
Lukak, please can you explain how you did it in I-Deas? I tried to save the print file. But by default it is saved as ***.pff
I've installed Ghostview also. But don' know how to invoke ps2pdf command. Can you help me out? I'm on I-deas NX m1/windows.
Thank you for the reply.
I'm sorry, I have installed ghostscript, not ghostview. Anyway, after adding specific folders to system PATH then I could convert existing .ps files to .pdf. Great!!!
Finally please can you let me know how to setup i-deas output to .ps files? I had gone thru I-Deas help for the settings, but I couldnt find anything.