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MMMatt McKendrick16/07/2008
I need to create some drawing views for out P.A.
Unfortunately, when I save out a drawing with all of the neccessary
views in Line Art View (Hidden Lines Removed), I get all of the
tangent lines to all of the radii in the part. This really creates
havoc with the people I forward these images to as they need to
scale it down to fit on the applications and such. The end result
is an image with seemingly fat lines that looks like refried dog
crap. The easy answer, but not the right one is to check "Tangent
Lines Removed" in the view menu. However, if you have alot of
tangent faces connected by fillets (and if you create plastics
parts like us, that is pretty much EVERY face), the features simply
dissappear, removing way too much detail, because almost all of the
lines in each view are tangent lines. I have discovered only a few
options that will do what I need, all of which suck:
1 - Individually pick each tangent line I don't need and hide them. Tedious and very time consuming.
2 - Export into Photoshop and erase each line I don't need. Also tedious and time consuming.
3 - Try and suppress the fillets. Ya right, and spend the next 5 hours trying to fix all of the red "X's" in the design tree.
What I am after is a method to get line art views without extraneous tangent lines but with the tangent lines that actually define outline of the part detail.
I have attached a couple of images. The first is with all tangent lines showing, the second is the way I need it, and the third, is with them removed by selecting "Tangent Lines Removed"
I know this is probably a dead chipmunk, and there won't be a good answer, but there are alot of clever people out there who may have a method (I hope). Otherwise, I will have to create option #4, which is to pass it off to an unsuspecting intern and let him deal with it.
1 - Individually pick each tangent line I don't need and hide them. Tedious and very time consuming.
2 - Export into Photoshop and erase each line I don't need. Also tedious and time consuming.
3 - Try and suppress the fillets. Ya right, and spend the next 5 hours trying to fix all of the red "X's" in the design tree.
What I am after is a method to get line art views without extraneous tangent lines but with the tangent lines that actually define outline of the part detail.
I have attached a couple of images. The first is with all tangent lines showing, the second is the way I need it, and the third, is with them removed by selecting "Tangent Lines Removed"
I know this is probably a dead chipmunk, and there won't be a good answer, but there are alot of clever people out there who may have a method (I hope). Otherwise, I will have to create option #4, which is to pass it off to an unsuspecting intern and let him deal with it.