Lineweights while printing vectors from Technical Displays

[keen (Keen Gat)]

Hi,

I’m interested in the possibilities of printing vectors from technical display modes that I’ve read about (see below) and trying to figure out if the vector printing works for me yet. I’m on SRC 8.5

I can successfully control the hidden line in a Vector PDF. When I zoom way in to the PDF I can see that the silhouette and edge line weights do indeed relate to the pixel widths I set in the display mode. But overall they are too fine for my purposes & I can’t figure out how to scale them up. Should I be able to do that at this point?

My section hatches disappear. Am I missing something there?

Attaching a couple of test PDF’s raster vs vector, no other changes.
2024-02-14.2 mono raster.pdf (6.3 MB)
2024-02-14.2 mono vector.pdf (237.6 KB)

Thank you

@wim

What is new in Rhino 8 is that any detail on a layout that is set to any of the technical display modes (Technical, Pen, Artistic, Monochrome, and any modified copies of those) will result in vector output when printed as vector. This is something that has been on the wishlist for over 25 years, and, yes, is not completely perfect yet.

Wim Dekeyser
Fixed: Info for the help file: When printing to vector PDF from a technical display mode, the mode’s settings for edge line width, silhouette line width, and intersection line width are taken into account. As before, the width of the resulting hidden lines in the PDF file are taken from the Hidden linetype, and not from the display mode.