Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
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I am getting jagged curves whenever I export a PDF or a TIF of a dwg. The curves that are jagged are dashed and phantom lines. They only appear on the PDF or TIF file. My display is normal.
The left view seems to be OK, but the other two are a problem.
I am sure this is an easy fix but it escapes me now.
Thanks,
Allen
The left view seems to be OK, but the other two are a problem.
I am sure this is an easy fix but it escapes me now.
Thanks,
Allen





RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
Forgot to mention, using NX 5.0.4.1
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
As for exporting TIFF, I'm surprised that you're not getting exactly what you're seeing on the screen as .tif is a bitmap of the display. Have you tried JPEG or PNG and see if you get a different result?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
No difference in using "High" resolution.
I am using File>plot, "Advanced Plot"
Print tab: TIFF export file
Created profile w/ 600 DPI, Mono, Portrait, Uncompressed, no background color & Invert white objects
Current version: NX 5.0.4.1
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
File -> Export -> PDF...
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
Within export PDF, I tried:
Print properties: Size (full scale & scale factor 0.33)
Unhighlighting "export raster images".
All scenarios produced the same image.
Current version: NX 5.0.4.1
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
I will reply back later with the answer.
Thanks
Current version: NX 5.0.4.1
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
After downloading an updated graphics driver, I was getting mixed results with the display of the PDF's & TIF's. It seems that I can only create about 5 before things start going bad.
And the Advanced Plot within the Plot feature seemed to never work for me.
So it looks like it might be an graphics card issue. I do have an old computer (Dell Precision 670). But I have a 64bit waiting to be setup, so maybe this problem will be in the past after that.
Allen
Current version: NX 5.0.4.1
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
Right click and select 'Style'.
Then drop the 'tolerance' and see if that improves it?
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
I was able to get the tolerance smaller (.064) from (.16), but not go down to zero.
I am still getting the same result. I did run a Journal program that we use for our dwg's yesterday on another asm and it looked good.
I hate not being able to duplicate the problem on a consistant basis. If I have to I will get another person to create my PDF's for me on the bad dwgs.
Thanks for all the ideas.
Allen
Current version: NX 5.0.4.1
RE: Jagged curves when exporting a PDF & TIF
I haven't used UG in a while, but that's worked for me with other programs.