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[Bill Wimberley]

Has anyone been able to create interior elevation cabinets that aren't all light and washed out when exported to PDF? If so, how did you do it?

The darker image is an interior elevation saved as a line drawing then placed on a plan set page and exported to PDF.
The lighter image is an interior elevation placed on a plan set page and exported to PDF.

No matter what settings I use I can't seem to get the live interior elevations to be dark and sharp like the line drawings.

 

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[Fred Dickson]

Use model view of the kitchen and use Direct X 12.  Increase the line width to what ever you want (1 looks good to me).  Try your Annotated view now and place on the Plan Set.  

[Bill Wimberley]

Thanks Fred. When I use the Direct X 12 with lines set to 1 it looks good on screen but is washed out and light grey in the PDF. If I increase the lines to 10 it looks pretty good in the PDF but on screen the lines are very thick like they were drawn with a magic marker.

 

There doesn't seem to be a setting where it looks good on both the screen and in the PDF. Which is weird since I can get excellent results both on screen and in the PDF for exterior elevations.

[Fred Dickson]

Weird.  Darker lines on the plan set and the lighter are on the pdf (smaller png) Line size is 1.  Seem pretty close?  

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[Fred Dickson]

This is a PDF w/ Line Size 2  

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[Fred Dickson]

One more try..... Direct X 12, Line thickness 3, Path Tracing 100, Tone Mapping 100, Indirect Bounces 4...... "It's getting better all the time."  

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•  Cabinet Lines PDF Ver 4.pdf   85.93KB   51 downloads

[Bill Wimberley]

That last one is actually not too bad. The gray lines are still present (you can see them when you roll the mouse wheel forward and back) but they are covered with black lines.

[Fred Dickson]

So this customer said to me: "Fred, the reason I had you come here at exactly 10 am is, if you put your head down on the floor right here and look across at this angle you can see a slight difference in the floor finish. The sun has to hit it just right, but you can see it."  True story.  

[Bill Wimberley]

Just tell him the finish has to stabilize. Have him check again at the exact same location and at the same exact time of day 2 months later and see if he can still see it.

[Martin Livingston]

Try putting them on a unique layer and select the "fade" option.

[John Penner]

Use model view of the kitchen and use Direct X 12.  Increase the line width to what ever you want (1 looks good to me).  Try your Annotated view now and place on the Plan Set.  

 

Could you explain a bit more detail please? Where do you go to set to Direct x 12? 

[David Zawadzki]

Could you explain a bit more detail please? Where do you go to set to Direct x 12? 

 

Open up a 3D model, then options and then mode option.

[Larry Hartensteiner]

After changes were made did you print and see if darker lines were like a PDF. file??

[Fred Dickson]

I opened the elevation view in the model mode, made all the changes as noted above, switched to annotated view and placed that view on the plan set.  The lines do appear much darker then they will on the pdf file.  I did not print the pdf file and felt no need to do so.  Especially since your printer and my printer will print differently.