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JSJamil Snead30/07/2014

I have modeled a color label in SW and I want to print it onto label paper. How can I make a drawing view that shows the actual colors assigned and not some faded version of the colors that depends on the lighting? I need the scale to be exactly 1:1.

I tried using a drawing view in shaded mode, but the colors are off. Also there are tiny white gaps at the edges of some round shapes. I have image quality turned all the way up, and this showed up even when saved as pdf. It might be because the method I used to separate the colored areas was to split the part into multiple bodies rather than use split lines. The reason I did this was because I wanted the lines to show up in drawing views even if they have tangent edges hidden.

The image below is from the pdf I saved. In the pdf options I checked every box (high quality lines, 600 dpi, high quality shaded edges)

label.png

So here is what I am after:

Scale 1:1

Actual assigned colors

high quality edges without gaps

I've attached the file in case anyone wants to look at it. Thanks in advance.