Problem with printing PDF - shading switches off

Hi David,

I am afraid that you are not. Try to draw something next to sphere, shading should appear:

Anyways, Arctic looks like this as well:

After loading the “PJT all settings.ini” and printing a PDF, Arctic begin to look like this:
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Lets see tomorrow! Cheers!

@pawel I’m not able to reproduce. How are you printing the viewport, and what print settings are you using? Can you take a screen shot of the Print dialog?

-David

Hi David,

I give up. I have renamed the folder in %APPDATA%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\ to reset preferences to defaults and created display modes from scratch. It works for now. It is frustrating not knowing what the real problem is, but it doesn’t matter.

So I consider the issue is solved for now. Thank you for the patience and perseverance.

Till next time!

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I have a similar problem, but this is related to printing through Rhino PDF in Rhino 7.
The screen grab shows that if I print from a bluebeam PDF printer I got the shading result I set up in my Arctic display mode, but if I print from the Rhino PDF printer, the shades are lost.
Is it a bug or is it a settings type of problem?

I too am having a similar issue at the moment

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best

Felix

I actually just managed to fix my issue by adding a surface beneath the model. That might help you too?

I think its possible that when you print in Rhino it doesnt automatically generate a ground plane for shadows in the way that the model space does.

Best,

Felix

Hi David! I know this is about a year later, but I’m running into this same issue. When I try to print to pdf from a layout view with shaded settings - the shadows disappear. Was there a resolution found for this?

What I see on the screen:

What prints:

It was printing successfully earlier but now I cannot get it to print correctly at all!

Rhino 7 SR5 2021-4-10 (Rhino 7, 7.5.21100.03001, Git hash:master @ 2cd158094b595f6400479d7cbe511454b6149527)
License type: Commercial, build 2021-04-10
License details: Stand-Alone

Windows 10.0.19042 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Unplugged [17% battery remaining] ~28 minutes left

Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: Intel(R) UHD Graphics P630 (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 9-5-2020 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- Secondary monitor is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #2
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 with Max-Q Design (NVidia) Memory: 16GB, Driver date: 11-20-2020 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 452.66
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Video pass-through to primary display device

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 11-20-2020
Driver Version: 27.21.14.5266
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 16 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\Lauren\AppData\Local\Programs\Enscape\Bin64\Enscape.Rhino7.Plugin.dll “Enscape.Rhino7.Plugin” 0.0.21089.1448
C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\V-Ray for Rhinoceros\V7\VRayForRhino.rhp “V-Ray for Rhino”

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.5.21100.3001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RPC.rhp “RPC”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.5.21100.3001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 7.5.21100.3001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.5.21100.3001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.5.21100.3001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”

Hi @laurencadieux,

I believe the problem that you are seeing has been fixed in a more recent version of Rhino 7. Unfortunately, it’s so recent it’s not officially available to users yet. There’s a chance it will be appear as a Service Release Candidate in a couple of days. In order to get Service Release Candidates you can go to Help -> Check for Updates... -> Update frequency: Service Release Candidate.

If the problem is very urgent to get fixed, you can download a fresh build from here, but keep in mind that this Rhino 7 version hasn’t been tested as much, and it might contain serious bugs. If you use this build, please save your work often.

-David

Hi David, I’m going to check out the service release and see if that fixes and report back. Thank you for the quick response, always so appreciative of the community here.

@DavidEranen woohoo - the service release candidate I got today seems to have completely fixed it!! You all are wizards.

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