In the past few months there seems to have been an update which changed the way vector pdfs print transparent materials. Now objects behind transparent materials are often missing when printed, and perspective details on the non-active layout are missing lots of stuff when printed ‘all-layouts’ to vector pdf.
I often include perspective detail views on sheets with a arctic display style that shows the rendering materials. These are usually at least on the cover sheet and maybe an additional sheet that has perspectives.
I’ve created a test file and thrown a bunch of stuff in there. There are simple geometry (a sphere and a box), blocks (the piano and the kayaks), and visualarq elements (like the person, walls, and doors) surrounded by a mix of visualarq curtain wall elements and simple surfaces with the same glass material applied.
Within the past few months, there has been an issue that only the active layouts print correctly, and other layouts are missing a ton of geometry when printed using “all-layouts”. In the PdfRenderTransparencyAllLayouts.pdf, the second sheet was visible on the screen and the first sheet starts to miss a ton of geometry, mostly visualarq related objects it seems.
In maybe a related issue (or maybe not?), objects that should be visible through transparent materials are not printed. It seems pretty random, sometimes the objects get printed and sometimes not. In the PdfRenderTransparencyMissingObjects.pdf, on the second page you can see that its happening to blocks and the simple geometry. I first noticed it when visualarq walls behind glass wouldn’t print. But it doesn’t seem to be a visualarq problem and seems to be more related to the way transparent materials are printed in a vector format.
PdfRenderTransparencyAllLayouts.pdf (478.7 KB)
PdfRenderTransparencyMissingObjects.pdf (495.0 KB)
PdfRenderTransparencyTest.3dm (5.0 MB)
PerspectivePdf.pdf (331.6 KB)
This happens with any display style I’ve tested that uses the rendering materials in stead of an object’s color.
Other than visualarq, the plugins that don’t ship with rhino are turned off. System info is below:
Rhino 7 SR11 2021-10-20 (Rhino 7, 7.11.21293.09001, Git hash:master @ 972ac562128b307e99f15e56dd11586c73e91ecb)
License type: Commercial, build 2021-10-20
License details: Cloud Zoo
Windows 10.0.19043 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 48Gb)
Computer platform: DESKTOP
Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 5-27-2021 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 466.63
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1
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: 5-27-2021
Driver Version: 27.21.14.6663
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 8 GB
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\Tibidabo.rhp “Tibidabo”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\VisualARQ.rhp “VisualARQ”
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.11.21293.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.11.21293.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 7.11.21293.9001
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\Alerter.rhp “Alerter”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 7.11.21293.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.11.21293.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 7.11.21293.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\export_PDF.rhp “PDF Export” 7.11.21293.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.11.21293.9001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
Thanks for any help.Arctic Material.ini (12.9 KB)
Shaded Material.ini (12.9 KB)