printing rendered objects

[johnfulwyler]

I am using ACAD 2000 and haven't been able to figure out how to print solid objects in rendered form. I know how to print with hidden lines, but that isn't what I want. I came across a section in the ACAD manual that breifly talked about rendering an object to a bitmap in that seperate window that comes up whenever the rendering process is started, or something like that. Anyway I was unsuccesful at my attempts. Any light on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

JOHN

[fuccaro]

John
Use the RENDER command to obtain the image of the solid. Adjust the view angle, the background color, the lighting... When you got the desired image, render again but this time in the render dialog set the Destination to File. The image will be saved in a file. Do you need that image in AutoCAD? If so, reimport it using the Imagemanager. Or better continue your work i Corel or Photoshop or something.
If you reimport the image in AutoCAD be careffull: do not move/rename/delete the imagefile.
When you will upgrade to AutoCAD 2004 you will be able to skip the save and reimport steps.

[johnfulwyler]

Hey! Thanks for the help. Your advice worked perfectly! It was right there in front of me all the time , I guess I should look more carefully next time.

[fuccaro]

Glad to help!

[Flores]

You could render to the default viewport, then do a "saveimg". You can then save it as a .bmp or a .tiff. There is a .tga option, but it doesn't seem to work with rendered objects very well. If you save it as a .tiff file, the background will be white or clear regardless of the screen background if inserted into Word or Excel. Before doing a "saveimg", I zoom in on the part, and then I minimize the screen to fit the part. By doing this, you will not have alot of wasted space on the sides of your picture.

Flores

[Mr T]

You could render to the default viewport, then do a "saveimg". You can then save it as a .bmp or a .tiff. There is a .tga option, but it doesn't seem to work with rendered objects very well. If you save it as a .tiff file, the background will be white or clear regardless of the screen background if inserted into Word or Excel. Before doing a "saveimg", I zoom in on the part, and then I minimize the screen to fit the part. By doing this, you will not have alot of wasted space on the sides of your picture.

Flores

With .tga boost the MORE OPTIONS settings up eg the image size and greater numbr of bits. I use Sun High Res and 32bit colour depth. Really smooth and sleek.

Nick

[fuccaro]

Hey, Mr T!
You are reading my mind? This is my favorite way too. The images created with small resolution can be magnified but the quality will be poor. So I create big images and always I can convert them to small ones.

[Mr T]

Hey, Mr T!
You are reading my mind? This is my favorite way too. The images created with small resolution can be magnified but the quality will be poor. So I create big images and always I can convert them to small ones.

Yip it's the old pixel again. I don't think people get their head round going form smoooooth vector cad files to bitmapped resolution dependant files.

Nick