Shaded view background

[Anonymous]

When I place a shaded view in an .idw I have to be careful that the view
doesn't overlap any other views or it will block them from printing. It's
like the background of the shaded view is set to white although it appears
transparent on the screen. This isn't a big problem but I do a lot of A size
drawings and real-estate is tight. Is there a setting I'm missing to make
the background print transparent?

[Anonymous]

Tracy,

I am not sure why, but I had a similar problem it had to do with memory in
the printer. Only half of a shaded view would print as shaded, the other
half was hidden lines. When more memory was added, problem went away.

Does it appear blocked out on your screen or just on the paper print?
If its on the screen that way, its related to your video card.
If its only the paper print, its printer memory / driver issues.

Did you try reloading the printer driver? Or getting an updated one?

John T

"Tracy Yoho" wrote in message
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> When I place a shaded view in an .idw I have to be careful that the view
> doesn't overlap any other views or it will block them from printing. It's
> like the background of the shaded view is set to white although it
appears
> transparent on the screen. This isn't a big problem but I do a lot of A
size
> drawings and real-estate is tight. Is there a setting I'm missing to make
> the background print transparent?
>
>

[Anonymous]

I have the same thing happening to me. I have 5 shaded parts all closely
fitted, kind of an exploded view, and each part had blocks around the edges
that overlap and on screen you couldn't see them, when it prints, it prints
overlapped white block edges around the edge of each part where it gets too
close to the other parts. I then said to myself, "Self" why didn't you use
the ipn part of inventor, it would probably handle this better. It was too
late, maybe next time.
Jerry



"John Tinelli" wrote in message
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> Tracy,
>
> I am not sure why, but I had a similar problem it had to do with memory in
> the printer. Only half of a shaded view would print as shaded, the other
> half was hidden lines. When more memory was added, problem went away.
>
> Does it appear blocked out on your screen or just on the paper print?
> If its on the screen that way, its related to your video card.
> If its only the paper print, its printer memory / driver issues.
>
> Did you try reloading the printer driver? Or getting an updated one?
>
> John T
>
> "Tracy Yoho" wrote in message
> news:B3599FB6017343249647B346AD0B54B6@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > When I place a shaded view in an .idw I have to be careful that the view
> > doesn't overlap any other views or it will block them from printing.
It's
> > like the background of the shaded view is set to white although it
> appears
> > transparent on the screen. This isn't a big problem but I do a lot of A
> size
> > drawings and real-estate is tight. Is there a setting I'm missing to
make
> > the background print transparent?
> >
> >
>
>

[Anonymous]

Save the .idw file as a .dwf then open with VoloView and you will see Tracy's problem more clearly. Inventor plots a "viewport" background of shaded views from .idw. If the boundary is over say a couple of dimensions in another view those dimensions will display but not plot.
J.D.

[Anonymous]

That's it exactly. The viewport background blocks
the surrounding views. It doesn't show up until you preview the plot or print it
out. If the viewport background can't be transparent then i
face=Arial size=2>t would be nice if you could change the size of the viewport
so that there is less wasted space.

style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

"JDMATHER" <jmather@pct.edu>
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Save
the .idw file as a .dwf then open with VoloView and you will see Tracy's
problem more clearly. Inventor plots a "viewport" background of shaded views
from .idw. If the boundary is over say a couple of dimensions in another view
those dimensions will display but not plot.
J.D.