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Sharper wireframe bitmap output.

Sharper wireframe bitmap output.

Sharper wireframe bitmap output.

(OP)
NX6:

When outputting bitmapped images of wireframe from Model view I'm getting jaggies on the diagonals. I've played with anti-aliasing in NX but of course that's only affecting the display. I've done it before but can't seem to remember exactly what I changed... Any ideas?

Here's a sample of two images one from the last project and the new one on the right. It's bolder and "jaggier".

 

RE: Sharper wireframe bitmap output.

(OP)
Oops... meant to say the one on the right is they way I'd like it to look. The one on the left is how it's coming out.

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Bill

RE: Sharper wireframe bitmap output.

Try going to...

Preferences -> Visualization -> Visual

...and in the section titled 'General Display Settings', sub-section 'Session Settings', toggle ON 'Edge Emphasis'.

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RE: Sharper wireframe bitmap output.

(OP)
John, I set that and it does give more contrast to the lines but still the aliasing persisted so... I tried a few things:

I use a dual 19" monitor setup so I moved it to one monitor then fit the view. I changed the line fonts of the models to thin.
I set ON 'Edge Emphasis' as you mentioned.

It's much better. Not like a plot but ok (it is a bitmap afterall). The biggest fix was going from the large dual monitor screen size to the single followed by the thin font.

That all said I've had really good results with pdf output but this clients setup spreadsheet only takes bitmaps.

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Bill
 

RE: Sharper wireframe bitmap output.

Try Disable Line Antialiasing under Visualization performance preferences - General graphics, it will improve.
 

Raj
NX 5.0.6

RE: Sharper wireframe bitmap output.

(OP)
"Try Disable Line Antialiasing under Visualization performance preferences - General graphics, it will improve."

That seems to help on screen display only - not the bitmap output... but thanks.

It's tricky. The part is 10' long so by the time it's viewed as an 8" x 6" image detail goes away. I would have thought exporting from my larger dual screens then scaling it down to fit on the page would work better than exporting from the single smaller screen. Perhaps I'm missing the image math...
It works ok for now.

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Bill

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