When I render the lines and meshes don't show up

[daautocad2010]

hey my apologies in advanced since I am not helping you with your question, but I have a rendering issue and need some help. I have an instrument drawing with 3d and hatch meshes and some lines. When I render the image the lines and meshes I have do not show up. is there any way to fix this? I know rendering is only for 3d objects (now that I have read up on it) but what about the lines in a drawing that you need to see in the final image?

 

any advice will be greatly appreciated!

[ReMark]

What lines in your drawing do you need that aren't showing up? What do these lines represent?

[Cad64]

I have moved your question to it's own thread.

 

In the future, when you have a question please start a new thread. It's not polite to hijack someone else's thread to post your own question. It also causes confusion for us when we are trying to help two people with different issues in the same thread.

 

And if you want to include images with your post, please upload them here in the forum: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?8863-How-to-add-images-to-your-posts

[daautocad2010]

Cad64, Thanks, that makes sense I wasnt aware of norms in forums.

 

ReMark, the meshes are a model of a stainless steel plate with a wiremesh at the center. this I have drawn as a block, the block shows up when rendered but not the mesh in the center which is part of the block.

 

the lines are representing some plates that are grounded. so I have drawn them similar to a paper drawing of a grounding with three lines of decreasing length with the longest line connected to the plate thats grounded.

[Oppie]

Can you upload your image again, seems there is something wrong with it

[daautocad2010]

Hi,

 

I attached a screen shot of the drawing as well as the rendered file.

 

Cheers,

 

[daautocad2010]

looking at it now for my purposes even the screen shot looks ok but would still like to find out more about this issue of lines and meshes not showing up in the rendered file.

Thank you.

[Patrick Hughes]

For rendering purposes look into creating a "mesh" material using an image file. Create a solid representing the screen and apply the mesh material.

[daautocad2010]

Patrick, if I understood you right, you are suggesting creating a mesh material using the Mesh Modeling tab?

 

I used a mesh cylinder but when rendered its smooth, im still curious to know how to get lines and a wire grid to show up on rendered files. any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

 

on 4th Jul 2007 02:53 pm

CAD64 wrote

"You can't apply a hatch pattern to the face of a 3D object, but you could draw a boundary polyline around the face of the object and then hatch that. You will need to adjust your UCS and align your XY plane to each face you want to place the hatch pattern. You need to keep in mind that the hatch will not show up when you render though. The correct procedure is to apply materials to your 3D objects."

[Cad64]

In other programs, like 3DS Max, you can produce a "wire" render, as discussed in this thread: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?42232-Wireframe-Rendering. But as far as I know, you can't do this in Autocad.

[Patrick Hughes]

Patrick, if I understood you right, you are suggesting creating a mesh material using the Mesh Modeling tab?

 

I used a mesh cylinder but when rendered its smooth, im still curious to know how to get lines and a wire grid to show up on rendered files. any help would be greatly appreciated!

"

 

No, In this case forget about the term "mesh" in reference to an AutoCAD mesh. What I mean is to find a picture (.bmp, .jpg, etc) of a screen - "mesh" (which is what I'm thinking you are meaning to represent).

 

Now create a material using that image file. When you render the screen will display the "mesh" (again - not the AutoCAD term)

[Patrick Hughes]

Like this:

 

[daautocad2010]

Thanks Cad64, I will check out that thread and program.

 

Patrick, interesting idea. I will see how that created material works out.

 

Appreciate your input very much!!