Rhino 8: Technical Display Mode, Vector Printing Bugs

I’m encountering some issues when printing in vector using Technical display mode. Here is the raster output, which has correct hatching and colors:

And here is the vector output:

All of the visible model geometry is inside a single block. Annotations are not. I get similar glitches (but worse) when the block is exploded.

Any ideas for a fix? I can DM the Rhino file to a McNeel employee if someone wants to take a look.

Bump. I have about 2 weeks until this goes out for bid and I start getting complaints from contractors because they can’t read fuzzy rasterized annotations.

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Hi Brayton_Orchard,

I’m not seeing a similar bug report.

Please run SystemInfo in your Rhino command line and post the result.

You can upload an example file here and add a link to this thread in the comments, once we can repeat we’ll get a report going. Thanks

Thank you for responding. Here’s my system info below. I’ve uploaded my Rhino file to the link you provided.

Rhino 8 SR15 2024-12-17 (Rhino 8, 8.15.24352.13001
License type: Commercial, build 2024-12-17
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 10 (10.0.19045 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 64GB)
.NET Framework 4.8.9290.0

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (NVidia) Memory: 11GB, Driver date: 8-14-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 560.94
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: 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: 8-14-2024
Driver Version: 32.0.15.6094
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 11 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\ProgramData\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\Plug-ins\Datasmith Rhino Exporter (d1fdc795-b334-4933-b680-088119cdc6bb)\DatasmithRhino8.rhp “Datasmith Exporter” 5.4.2.0
D:\Life\5Work\Tools\Rhino\blockeditnew20230622\BlockEditNew.rhp “BlockEdit” 1.0.0.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.15.24352.13001
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\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.15.24352.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.15.24352.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.15.24352.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.15.24352.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.15.24352.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\export_PDF.rhp “PDF Export” 8.15.24352.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.15.24352.13001
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\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

Thanks, I’m seeing this as well.

Here is the public portion of the youtrack you can follow along. RH-85392

Great, thanks!

Please also note that in addition to the hatch bleeding, when vector printing the clipped surface edges are not respecting the section style I’ve applied (black for new, gray for existing), but appear to be defaulting to per-object color.