HELP: trying to flatten drawing
mark gale
can anyone help?
i have been using the Whip extension and Internet Utilities to make DWF
files (by AutoDesk) on R13. My problem is that it does not export DWF
drawings if you are in Paper Space. You can do each Viewport separately
but this still brings in all of the drawing that is beyond the viewport.
is there any quick way to take a paper spaced drawing with viewports and
make it into a drawing that maintains all the views and has the entire
drawing (including what was in paper space) all on model space?
Rusty Gesner
If you know anyone with the R14 beta, you could replicate each viewport
as a clipped xref.
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Compaq User
You can use the Soldraw and Solview commands, and keep their
results in model space. By erasing, turning off, or freezing the
unwanted layers, you are left with 2D views of your object in
model space. Your 2D views will have to be rotated into, and
properly located in your world coordinate system. This is not,
necessarily, a quick way, or even the proper way, of doing what
you ask, but it works. Maybe, someone else has a better way?
Rio Benson
mark gale <ma...@fsc.ca> wrote in article <336136...@fsc.ca>...
George Omura
Use PSout to plot your drawing to an EPS file from Paperspace. Open a new
file then use PSin to import the plotted EPS file. Convert the imported
image into a DWF file. When you PSout your drawing, make the output "sheet
size" as large as you can. This will improve smoothness of curves and
overall accuracy (you will loose drawing accuracy in the conversion but if
it's only for display purposes, it should be OK). I hope this helps...
David Clark
I tried this, at first it seemed like a good solution, but close
inspection found that even though I specified an output of A0 sheet
size for a drawing normally plotted to A1, and regardless of the scale
of importing, the accuracy problem was unacceptable. I haven't yet
figured out why this is, and as this is purely a question of the
availability of time, or rather the lack thereof, this may well be
solved. In any event, at first go it produced unacceptable results.
But the major drawback that prevented me from investigating further
was the failure to produce hidden line views to EPS, even though
called for. (Did I miss something here?)
David Clark