Hi,
I am now making drawings of complexed structures and would like to draw attention to some elements that are important for particular drawing.
What I would like best would be to be able to schade selected parts. But did not find a way to do that.
Is this possible?
Cris?
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I'm afraid it's not possible to shade only selected parts in idw, but you can try with different view representations or LOD in iam, and use that in idw.
In idw you can e.g. select a part and change it's line type and colour, for it to be more visible.
Greg
One possible solution might be to make the parts that you DO NOT want shaded WHITE.
Haven't tried this, but in theory the white parts should look the same as when they are unshaded.
Might be worth a try.
Hi,
it was not that easy just to use white material.
In order to get this working one has to use material that "self lights" in white. Without this no matter what the settings are I allways get schadows. With "self iluminance" there are no schadows and in schaded objects look like drawn with lines.
in the same time living desired objects with other materials gives efect I want, that is thise objects are drowing attention and all other is just background reference.
Cris
This is a very late reply, but they have a workaround on Being Inventive:
http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2011/05/assembly-view-partially-shaded.html
HI,
thanks, but this is really not what I wanted to achieve.
As you can see in the link they only made other parts "transpoarent" and drawing looks rather strnge.
What I came up with is:
make additional representation of assembly where selected part is given some colour you want and others are changed to something like "white flat" that is white without any schades or reflexes.
Doing so it is quite easy to do schaded drawing in witch only some parts look like they ware actyally shaded and others are schown just for reference.
Cris.
This is a very old thread....
However, you might try the drawing overlay improvements made in the Inventor 2019.2 release. See: https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-9E8CBAA7-CC7A-4644-A28E-E975ED79D997
Steve Walton
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Hi
I use positional view representations (thanks Curtis)
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2017/02/issue-you-want-to-create-view-on-your.html
It's even easier with 2020, because you don't have to make a positional view rep anymore.
edit, I just read the help file you posted, I see it's the same with 2019 as well.
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