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Issues with colour and bodies exporting - 3D PDF

Question asked by Megan Tissington on Jun 2, 2017
Latest reply on Jun 7, 2017 by Michael Gerasimoff

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Hello all,

I have this file (See 'Yeats') that I want to export to a 3D PDF however when I do this, what I get is nothing like what I see in the Solidworks window (see Test01).

You will see that the colours are not exporting correctly and part of the door is missing - does anybody have any suggestion as to how I might fix this?

I've tried changing the quality of the export and making sure my appearances are top level (which I think they are though I'm not sure in all cases) but I'm still having issues.

Thanks very much!!

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Kevin Pymm Jun 2, 2017 6:58 AM
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Megan,

There are no parts included in your zip file for the assembly. When I try to open your PDF I just get a white page & then it crashes my PDF viewer.
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Megan Tissington Jun 2, 2017 11:24 AM
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Hi all,

I actually got onto the support team at SolidSolutions and they were able to tell me how to do it.
Will post screenshots here later.

Thanks!
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Michael Gerasimoff Jun 3, 2017 6:39 PM
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I am running SW2016 SPO1 on a WIN7 64-bit platform
I've never tried to save any of my work in 3dPDF format until today.
I thought that this would be one of the options in the SAVE AS dialog (i.e., simply choose *.3dpdf as an option) but no, that is not an available Save As option.
I then check to see if it was a PRINT dialog option. I did not find it there, either.
Then, I checked Solidworks HELP.
The HELP information does indicate that there is a way to set-up the System Options for "Exporting" to 3dPDF format, but when I follow the directions ( proceed down the rabbit hole TOOLS>OPTIONS>SYSTEM OPTIONS>EXPORT etc) I find that there isn't an EXPORT dialog of any kind.
I did in fact Search within the Options dialog, and nothing about Export comes up. Nothing at all about Exporting, let alone about Exporting As 3dPDF!

Either I am missing something, or perhaps my combination {of SW2016 SP01 with WIN7 operating in the 64-bit flavor} just doesn't have the option to create 3dPDFs at all.

Any ideas or help would be appreciated.
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- Bernie Daraz @ Michael Gerasimoff on Jun 7, 2017 7:17 AM
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  When you do the Save As, select PDF file, then place a check mark in the 3D PDF Box there.
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  - Michael Gerasimoff @ Bernie Daraz on Jun 7, 2017 11:20 AM
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    D'oh!
    I was expecting that the 3dPDF dialog would be separate from the 2-d version!
    Thanks for the simple solution
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- Paul Risley @ Michael Gerasimoff on Jun 7, 2017 7:19 AM
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  Michael, "save as" a PDF. The option for 3d PDF comes up after you check this option.
  *EDIT*Ok Bernie types faster than I do.
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  - Bernie Daraz @ Paul Risley on Jun 7, 2017 7:23 AM
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    A picture is worth 1000 words Paul.
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Megan Tissington Jun 7, 2017 7:13 AM
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Hi all,

Sorry I took so long to come back to this - the main thing seems to be that the secondary colour is what is exported to a 3D PDF so this will need to be the colour you want to display. Some appearances, like car paint have 2 colours (to give depth I assume?) so it's a shame you won't get the layered effect but unfortunately the 3D PDF can only handle so much info... under the 3D PDF saving options I also made sure to click 'Maximum' and 'Use lossy compression on tesselation' which ensured that all my bodies showed up when exporting. The images below are what I got back from technical support which should hopefully give more of an indicator as to what I mean.

Michael Gerasimoff - for me it is as simple as selecting the PDF option from the save dialogue and checking the 3D PDF button. Hope I didn't cause too much confusion in using the word 'export', that's just the term I would use when saving in a non-native format (i.e. not .SLDPRT or .SLDASM etc.)

Since this project requires a specific set of colours as per the company's branding guidelines I decided to create my own library of appearances, making sure all secondary colours are the same as primary ones. I then deleted all appearances from my model and have reapplied them making sure that they are applied in the assembly rather than the part where possible because I want to be able to make quick edits.

The only thing I am still having trouble with is getting the decals to export properly but other than that, at the very least my 3D PDF shows the colours that I want! Here's my final result - took quite a while to get there but glad I finally figured it out! Hopefully somebody else will find this info useful too
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Megan Tissington Jun 7, 2017 7:14 AM
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I will keep playing with the decals so hopefully I'll figure it out soon enough - if anybody has any suggestions on this it would be much appreciated
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