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Text, Leader Lines, and Annotations dissapear when Rendering

Text, Leader Lines, and Annotations dissapear when Rendering

Text, Leader Lines, and Annotations dissapear when Rendering

(OP)
Hi everyone,

I am trying to Render a 3D solid model file in AutoCAD. I want to render the solid model to a file, and then paste it in a Microsoft Word , .Doc file, or whatever format may be best.

Whenever I render the file, all of my text, leader lines, and general annotations dissapear. I have a spring made as a spline coil and it dissapears too. I can create the spring as a solid model, and it will show up fine when rendering. However, what can I do with the text and leader lines so that they show up when rendering ? Can I make the text and leader lines behave as solids so they show up when rendering ?

I'm doing this in AutoCAD 14 but I also have access to version 2002.

I also noticed that it's hard to export a shaded file as a bitmap or a file that can be inserted into a word processor. You can export the view "hidden" but I could not do it shaded. Is there anyway to export a shaded file and insert it into a word processor ? AutoCAD 2002 produces a decent shaded image & If I can export that and get it into a word processor it would be faster than rendering to a file. I still need to get the text and leader lines to show up though.    

Thanks for your help.
John


 

RE: Text, Leader Lines, and Annotations dissapear when Rendering

Move the cursor to a corner of the screen and hit <alt><PrintScreen> a couple of times.

Then open "Paint" and select Edit|Paste.

To get rid of the image of AutoCAD surrounding what you actually want, use the selection rectangle to outline the area you want to reproduce and select Edit|Copy.  Then select Edit|SelectAll|Delete.  Then select Edit|Paste.   Pull in the boundary and you have a nice bitmap of your shaded image.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Text, Leader Lines, and Annotations dissapear when Rendering

(OP)
Hi Mike,

Thanks for the tip, it worked with a shaded image. Just out of curiosity, is there any way to render to a file and have the text and leader lines show up ?

I'm not sure what to change, I tried changing a few things under the render command but nothing showed up. It's real easy to render to a bitmap file, and then save that as a small gif file to insert into a word processor, but the text is just not showing up. Maybe a truetype font, or trying the change the object properties of the text and leader will help.   

Thanks again,
John    

RE: Text, Leader Lines, and Annotations dissapear when Rendering

I think the rendering engine _by_ _design_ excludes text and leaders because that's the way most people want a rendering; clean.  If there's a switch to change that behavior, I haven't found it.




Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

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