RH8 - ANSI Hatch becomes Solid in Print Preview

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I’ve tried iterations including Section by Object Layer, Plane Layer, Plane Custom, etc. Diff hatches, colors, hatch-scaling toggled on and off. Maybe there’s a new RH8 doc setting or layer setting I’m missing?

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Thx,

Alan

Rhino 8 SR1 2023-11-7 (Rhino 8, 8.1.23311.13281, Git hash:master @ 0f88bb345f3e6574a4453f1846edc6d9c718fbce)
License type: Evaluation, build 2023-11-07
License details: Cloud Zoo
Expires on: 2024-01-30

Windows 11 (10.0.22621 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)
.NET 7.0.13

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (NVidia) Memory: 12GB, Driver date: 10-26-2023 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 546.01
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port 0

Secondary graphics devices.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 10-26-2023 (M-D-Y).
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port 0
Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 1-22-2020 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device!

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

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: 10-26-2023
Driver Version: 31.0.15.4601
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 12 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\ProgramData\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\Datasmith Rhino Exporter (d1fdc795-b334-4933-b680-088119cdc6bb)\DatasmithRhino7.rhp “Datasmith Exporter” 5.3.0.0
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\SafeLayout.rhp “SafeLayout” 1.1.0.2
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\Plug-ins\CodeListener (8c4235b6-64bc-4508-9166-bef8aa151085)\0.1.7.0\Rhino 5.0\x64\CodeListener.rhp “CodeListener” 0.1.7.0
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\RPC\0.0.11-beta\RPC.rhp “RPC”
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\SubstanceImporter\2.0.3\Substance.Win.rhp “SubstanceImporter” 2.0.3.0
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\BlockEditNew\BlockEditNew.rhp “BlockEdit” 1.0.0.0
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\rhinopbrmaterial\1.1.4+v6.16\RhinoPbrMaterial.rhp “RhinoPbrMaterial” 1.1.2.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SolidTools.rhp “SolidTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.1.23311.13281
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoBonusTools.rhp “Rhino Bonus Tools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.1.23311.13281
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.1.23311.13281
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.1.23311.13281
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.1.23311.13281
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.1.23311.13281
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCode\RhinoCodePlugin.rhp “RhinoCodePlugin” 8.1.23311.13281
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.1.23311.13281
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Calc.rhp “Calc”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

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The PrintPreview Toggle is now Obsolete and used only for Legacy Linetypes and Lineweights.

There is a related post that I made below discuss the problem,

The Good news is your file should print properly without the need of using print preview:

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Thx fir the reply. I actually need the viewports and details to show the view correctly, as well as print correctly.

I’ll take a look at that post you linked to, thx

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A shaded viewport will print as wireframe if you select vector output.

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https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-78294/Expose-SectionStyle-Print-settings

This should be fixed in 8.2 which we will have a release candidate for next week. You may need to recreate your section styles for your existing models to see this fix take effect.

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Great! Thanks so much.

EDIT: I saw @wim will be working on this. Having read the other few comments in the JetBrains window, I couldn’t ascertain what was going to happen with the Display/Print setting options.

Can I respectfully request/suggest that beyond the default Print Color being set to match the Display Color, we are, indeed, given the visible option to set each independently as we do with the rest of the UI? Mutiple reasons for this, including our viewport background color, and I can say for myself, I have a workflow that makes use of the independence features.

Thanks,
Alan

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Hi Alan -

With the fix in 8.2, the settings in the section style will override the print color settings of the object or the objects’ layer.
-wim