Quick question: Printing Clipped Technical Display Mode

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Hi
I am trying to print a viewport set to Technical Display Mode with a Clipping plane.
Although it looks good on the viewport and on the print preview (the sectioned bits have thicker lines), the PDF has all lines as hairline.
I tried also Raster Output with Linetype set to Match Viewport Display with the same results.

Any ideas?
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Hi Nuno -

We have this issue on the list as RH-15552 Clipping printing doesn’t give you what you see in the print preview

You could try playing with a few parameters to change the outcome:

  • Thickness of the clipping plane section in pixels
  • Size of the PDF sheet of “paper” (A5, letter, A2, …)
  • Resolution of the print (200 dpi vs 600 dpi)

The following picture is composed of screenshots of PDF files that were made with different combinations of those settings.

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-wim

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Ok. So the pixels in the “Clip Plane Settings” are directly translated to the resolution of the Print Setup, and not proportional to the plot/view size.
So you either have to lower the print resolution or increase the clipping plane pixels in such a way that is impossible to look at in the viewport.
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