Printing textures in drawings

[jdg268]

Anyone know why this happens?

Here's a screenshot of my drawing, which is an assembly with some textures applied. The drawing view is shaded with edges.

http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=textureic5.jpg

When I print, view the print, print to .pdf, or save as .pdf, the view looks like this.

http://img380.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whitetextureyz2.jpg

The texture is then white.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

John Graham CSWP

Mechanical Design Engineer

 

[cmb042]

I am running into the same problem. What I want to do is print a shaded model with just a few callouts for documentation.

I tried a lot of different things and scoured the options menus. The only thing that worked was to save it as an eDrawings file, then print from eDrawings, clicking the Print>Print Options>Print Shaded checkbox.

 

[p2000]

Hello guys,

I had the same problem and it turns to be the printing settings.
Probably you have it like i had it on automatic, please change it to color and it will print it correctly.

When you hit print, go to properties and change the color detection to color instead of automatic.

Please let me know if you need more details
Regards

 

[jdg268]

p2000,
Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not work. And, this still happens when trying to save as a .pdf


John Graham CSWP

Mechanical Design Engineer

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Are the video card and driver combination suitable for your SW version?

Is your printer driver up to date?

Can you swap printers?

Can you open and print the assy on another PC?

 

[jdg268]

CBL,
We have a VAR recommended video card and driver. Printer is up to date, but like I said this happens when saving to .pdf, not necessarily printing to .pdf. Also, it does happen on other machines in my department.
Thanks

John Graham CSWP

Mechanical Design Engineer

 

[cmb042]

Sounds like it could be more of a problem with Acrobat than soldiworks, isn't printing to .pdf just as good as saving as pdf?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

jdg268,

Which version and SP of SW are you using?

Just to confirm, this happens with Print, Print Preview, Print to PDF and Save as PDF?

What happens when you 'Save As' to other formats?
(eDrawing, bmp, tiff, etc)

 

[jdg268]

I still get the white texture no matter what format I use. I tried printing to .jpg and edrawings, and both don't show the correct image.

I think it's a problem with SolidWorks not rendering the surfaces correctly. I've reported it to my VAR to investigate but have not heard back.
Thanks for your input

John Graham CSWP

Mechanical Design Engineer

 

[ctopher]

jdg268,

How are you creating/adding the textures?
Are they cosmetic thds?

I have tried both, with various option selected, and mine works with Save-As.
The PDF shows both textures or cosmetic thds.

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[jdg268]

We applied a texture to a surface (at the assembly level). It used to print fine up until a last week. We haven't made any system changes between now and then

John Graham CSWP

Mechanical Design Engineer

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

You may not have knowingly made any changes, but has the automatic Windows Update?

 

[rockguy]

Try enabling RealView and when saving the PDF go into settings (in the save as dialog box) and be sure RealView materials is checked.

I run into this problem quite often when creating PDF's and this solves it for me.

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