Create a Drawing in Color

[Anonymous]

Hello,

This may be a simple question, but I was not able to find a solution online. I am running version 2016.

I am currently trying to create a drawing in color, I have tried clicking the "Shaded" option but I want the views to look how they would when I am looking at them in the assembly. The shadded view does not show the detail that I need to display. I have watched a few youtube videos on the topic and several of the people had their projected views show up in color, but I don't know how they did it. They had the shaded option clicked.

Thank you for any help you may be able to provide,

Colby

[blair]

Post what you have so far, even a screen capture so we can see what you have done.

[chris31]

Are you trying to get hidden lines to display?

If so click both shaded and hidden in the edit view dialog box.

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hello,

This may be a simple question, but I was not able to find a solution online. I am running version 2016.

I am currently trying to create a drawing in color, I have tried clicking the "Shaded" option but I want the views to look how they would when I am looking at them in the assembly. The shadded view does not show the detail that I need to display. I have watched a few youtube videos on the topic and several of the people had their projected views show up in color, but I don't know how they did it. They had the shaded option clicked.

Thank you for any help you may be able to provide,

Colby

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Shaded is the solution.. BUT the drawings only use a default lighting style and won't do realistic,etc... so it won't look like your assembly unless you just insert pictures taken from the assembly into the drawing..

[Anonymous]

I believe you have answered my question even though it isn't what I wanted to hear. I was wanting the drawings to look like they do in the assembly. Maybe it was the colors or material that the videos I saw used, but I was hoping to have my drawings more realistic.

From your response about the default lighting style, it looks like this isn't possible.

[Anonymous]

I have created an assembly and used it to create a drawing. The pictures generated in the drawing, even with the shaded option, do not look like the assembly. They look more like a roughly shaded in sketch than a picture.

[mcgyvr]

There is also... tools.. document settings...Drawing tab..

Change Shaded Views to..Offline Only  and maybe try jacking up the resolution..

[chris31]

One thing I've done, is to set the background color to white.  The render the image till you get it like you want it.  Save as bmp or jpeg.  Then insert this into drawing.  With IV tan background color you'll see white around your image, but when you print to white pape, it looks fine.