I am having trouble printing sections and clipping planes at the desired thickness.
I see other people have asked the same question but there has been no responses.
I have attached a piece of the model for reference.
The clipping plane and sections show up on the layout as the desired thickness but when i print it physically, the lines are all the same. The print thickness and display thickness are the same.
I have attached the printed pdf page too for reference.
On the same note, I am trying to give my new structures more line weight in a section view than the structures depicted in other layers, and on my screen I see …
I have tried making the PDF with virtually every option on the print-to-PDF dialog box (vector/raster, viewport/print-settings, color/BW) and the heavy lines vanish.
Any news? Do we have to make our sections by hand?
I would be satisfied to have a raster image; it’s not essential that I have vector graphics in my output. Any insight into why raster does no better or what settings might give a better result in raster output?
Japhy,
Yes, that’s how I got the heavier lines in the top image in my post. The problem is that when I try to make a document from a layout with a detail that shows these heavier lines, I get a choice between vector (all lines are thin) and raster (I get layer-driven colors that don’t match the section settings) and if setting the output to print lines as they appear on the display instead of the print type is supposed to have an effect I haven’t noticed what it is yet.
I do really like the live sections in Rhino 8, I’m just frustrated that I can’t figure out how to get the benefit of them while turning layouts (even after I get the layout displaying satisfactorily) into an exported PDF. I would have thought the whole reason for layouts that match paper sizes is to offer WYSIWYG so users know what their PDF will look like. I really don’t understand the idea that a layout should not actually depict the exported result. Is there a setting to force Layout view to show only what will in fact be exported, to prevent the illusion that one has solved one’s problem only to discover during document assembly that the depicted document doesn’t in fact exist at all? It’s deeply frustrating. What setting will show in Layout the actual output of export?
