printing 3D solids?

[2kdesigner]

no flatshot function available, thanks anyway.

[mugshot]

:lol:its been years that i have never used cad 2000. but ive started from cad 2000... maybe i have to go back to my old PC:P.

[2kdesigner]

can you answer me this... do you recall being able to print solids? maybe this version won't do it.

[mugshot]

when im still using cad 2000, i dont know yet flatshot, that is why i know the result, crap. just like you printed a 3d wire frame. so as its result.

[2kdesigner]

I started in the 3D Modeling and Rendering forum. Thought maybe I could look here too. I'm using Cad2000 and can't seem to print 3D solids as a solid, they only print as 3D wireframe. Any suggestions?

[ReMark]

In the Plot dialog box, what are the choices under the heading Shaded Viewport Options for release 2000? I do not have that version installed but I seem to recall they were As Displayed, Wireframe, Hidden and Rendered. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[2kdesigner]

Hmmm...its been so long since I used 2000...I'm not sure what you need to do to resolve this. I'll keep thinking on it, in the meantime can you post a screenshot of the settings for the plot dialog box? Make sure everything is fully expanded.

 

Sorry I didn't pay more attention yesterday, I was just heading out and missed your request by a bit. Here is what I have in the Plot Dialog

 

 

[2kdesigner]

Unfortunately I don't have a heading named Shaded Viewport Options. This is what I have:

 

[Lazer]

? I see blank boxes

[Patrick Hughes]

One option you might look into is to download a copy of DwgTrueView from Autodesk - it's free.

 

You'll be able to open any DWG file version and it will generate a print of your solids in the style that you prefer.

 

I've got r14 and have used the DwgTrueView often to do what you are looking to do.

[Patrick Hughes]

Oh, another thing. Do you not have an option to print with "hide"?

[2kdesigner]

Thanks everyone, I will look at and try DwgTrueView.

I made the mistake of cleaning out the photos posted at the Bucket, hence the empty boxes. For now I've found a temp. fix just by doing screenshots of my layout. Then cropping the image with Irfanview (an awesome image viewing tool, it even shows DWGs however you've saved them without even opening them, just like a slideshow with Jpegs. Makes it real easy to find files without opening every one.)

I do have the option of Hide but not sure how that will help?

[2kdesigner]

Thanks everyone for your help. For now I am using screenshots of my layout and that will suffice for my immediate task. I've been given a suggestion to try DwgTrueView so will see what that does.

The above photos are gone because I cleaned out all images at the Bucket. I will end the thread in this forum but will continue this quest in Drawing Management and Output.

Thanks Again!!

[Patrick Hughes]

I do have the option of Hide but not sure how that will help?

 

If you were to issue the hide command while in AutoCAD, the view you then see is what you will get when you activate the "hide" option in the print dialog.

 

As an aside I wasn't aware you would get Dwg previews in Irfanview - but if you like the ability to preview your drawings outside of AutoCAD check out my program called DwgGrid. It's like a Windows Explorer interface that you can filter your Dwg files (as well as Inventor, Revit, etc) and also print the thumbnails.

[2kdesigner]

Just finished downloading TruVu, will give it a try. I will also try the "hide" suggestion.

Thanks again!

[Cad64]

I have merged your two threads. In the future, please don't cross post. This only makes it more difficult to follow your progress towards a solution.

[Cad64]

Follow this link for instructions on how to add images to your posts: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8863

[2kdesigner]

Thanks to all for your input and hope to return the favor to someone in the future. These were my findings....

I halted the TrueView install as it wanted to install 5 or so other programs, none of which I need or want. I played around with "Hide" for a bit but couldn't get it to work. It certainly hid things but never allowed me to print 3D solid objects, just wireframe. Maybe there is a way using hide but as I had no time left to finish my report, I proceeded with the ALT+PrintScreen option. A few more steps involved to print a DWG but nothing close to the amount of time wasted trying to figure out another way. I'm thinking because my screen has a very high pixel count, my images were actually quite good. They showed up a little blurry while picture viewing, but when printed, all lines and 3D objects were very crisp and clean like they should be. I saved everything in Bitmap to keep a higher resolution, most files after cropping were still 2-3 mb, plenty for a good sized quality print.

Happy Holidays!

[ammobake]

I had this same problem a few weeks ago. The visual style of the viewport isn't necessarily the visual style of what is plotted. It's already been talked about but under properties there is "visual style" and "shade plot". the easiest thing to do (for me) was to select the viewport, right click, hit properties, and then alter the shade plot option to what I wanted (hidden).. But I can still view the objects as whatever I want in the viewports in paperspace. The shade plot property doesn't effect what is plotted..

 

My main problem was this. I had 3 - 3d Solids each having their own isometric views and one perspective view each. I wanted the perspective views to show hidden because we use a plot style that fills in the solid with ink (when plotted) if you showed it as anything other than hidden. I would change the viewport's visual style to hidden but it still wouldn't plot right.. Then I realized how handy the "shade plot" command is.. Viewports can all individually be specified to plot as whatever you want without actually affecting what you see in your viewports when the file is open on your computer.

 

-ChriS

[ammobake]

Oh, another thing. Do you not have an option to print with "hide"?

 

In short, no. To hide what is in a viewport when it is plotted, you could simply turn off the object's layers for that viewport OR you could turn off the viewport altogether by selecting it, right clicking, then select "display viewport objects" and simply click "no".

 

There isn't a "hide" option under "shade plot" in properties and if you have multiple viewports all looking at the same object for, say, an isometric view hiding the object in model space will hide it in every viewport the object is in.. The easiest thing to do would be to turn off the viewport or turn off the layers being displayed in the viewport to display what you want when the viewport is plotted.

 

-Chris