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Printing 3D

Printing 3D

Printing 3D

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How do I print 3D Shaded or Rendered with printer? All I get is wireframe 3D. Do I need to change printers?

RE: Printing 3D

You need to render your view then save the view as a RASTER file. JPEG or TIFF should be fine.  Then print image out or image-ref the file back into the DWG and print the file in AutoCAD.
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I think there's any other way to this.
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The rendered image might be too much memory to print straight out of AutoCAD.
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Hope that helps

RE: Printing 3D

Boliver,

When you print, choose "Hide Objects" in the "Plot settings" tab (in bottom right of window).

Garry

RE: Printing 3D

You can also use the SAVEIMG command.  Then print out this image from Paint or photoshop or one of the other applications that you might have on your computer.

RE: Printing 3D

Hide object can work for some uncomplicated drawings however when 3D drawings such as a bevel and hypoid gears are plotted, hide will not work well eventho a full preview may hide hidden lines. I found that using solprof and mview commands with the hide switch invoked will give you a mesh drawing which is more pleasing to the eye.

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