Rendering & Printing

[gina]

How do you print a drawing in cad or Arch. Desktop 3.3 so that your hidden lines don't show?

I've tried selecting the hide and render keys and still when i plot, the lines are shown. Someone told me that i have to save the drawing as a jpeg, but that wouldn't save my original scale...help!

[CADTutor]

Depends whether you are printing from Model Space or Paper Space. From Model Space, simply use the "Hide objects" option in the print dialogue box. With Paper Space viewports, you must set the Hideplot option to "Yes" for each viewport you want to remove hidden lines. To do this, select the viewport frame and then use the Properties panel to set Hideplot.

[gcp310]

Gina, you can render to file, then insert the file as a raster image into paperspace as part of your layout. when you print out your layout,
it will print the raster image.

G

[Mr T]

How do you print a drawing in cad or Arch. Desktop 3.3 so that your hidden lines don't show?

I've tried selecting the hide and render keys and still when i plot, the lines are shown. Someone told me that i have to save the drawing as a jpeg, but that wouldn't save my original scale...help!

When you render tweak the settings to scale at the approriate scale.

If it's a 3D drawing then rednering is best, but not for scaling.

SOLVIEW, SOLDRAW are best for solid model plotting, it will automatically create layers that have all hidden details on.

Nick