Rendering for print quality min. 400dp

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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>For start I am working in wildfire2 the basic Foundation package.</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Rendering a moldbase with all the components shown solid,</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>All moldbase plates shown transparent.</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>All colors are perfect now</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>It's an assembly, expanded shown open mold in horizontal position</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Orientation eqal to molding press part falling downward.</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>And now the trouble starts.........</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Rendering to a tif file, I cannot get the proper dpi like 400...</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Rendering to any other file format is thesame, barely 96 dpi yet the orientation is good and window size is equal to workstation.</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>I can save to a tif from Proup to 900dpi, but no rendering quality</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Finally... rendering to a postscript file ...there is no print preview...I foundthat reducing the object to a smaller scale and moving it way the heck to the left...using B-size formatthe file does show up in the exported image. My client imports the file...into the professional adobe programverifies good printing quality, but the file looks skewed. Compressed ... that a 14 7/8 x23 3/4 base is rotated and looks like a 14 7/8 sqare base. Shouldn't rendering to a .tif be equal to a .psverify the orientation?</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Why isn't there a print preview or any other way to measure what I am doing... or is there?</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Is there a setting I am missing? Is there a format I am missing?</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>I have to stay in Pro/E because there is a lot more coming down the pipeso I cannot use any other rendering package.The ARX package would not make any difference in the way of output to a file format.Is this true?</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Having said all this the only thingholding up progress is theskewed image into Adobe.....I could really use some help.</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Is theresomething Adobe does not read correct on importof the .ps file?</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Can't really show the file, it's sensitive innature.</DIV></LI>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=left>Help, help,help..........&nbsp ;</DIV></LI>[/list]
Werner K.

moldanddesign.com

 

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DPI is the least of your worries. The figure only says how the image should be read by processing programs, more precisely how many pixels should be used to translate into one inch.


What you really want to do is get the largest image possible in rendering quality. So you can go 2 ways. Leave resolution as it is and go for a very large picture (pixel numbers). Or set a high DPI setting and the highest possible real size (10 inch width at 900 DPI will output 9000 pixels wide).


Alex

 

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4600 x 3200 ought to get you 400 dpi for a size 8-1/2 x 11. Good luck with your rendering time, however.


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Greg&Alex,


Thank you for your prompt responcelast week, it really cleared up a lot of things (it saved my butt). Especially for my client. Frustrating if you work on a project for 2 months and then get told it's no good for the print job. Even the .ps file after selecting an E-size frame worked out, dia's in the image are not 'eggshape' anymore. She still claims the file .ps file comes in 90 degree rotated in ADOBE, but I can't help it. The .tif customized to the high resolution worked out best. .bmp did not work.


I really appreciate this forum, hope to partispate more if I can in the future.


Werner K.