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Support Shaded views in drawing translations

Support Shaded views in drawing translations

When releasing an item with a drawing, any view on the drawing with "Display Style" set to "Shaded with Edges" or "Shaded" becomes a line drawing in the released PDF. (Solidworks). Is this due to limitations of the DWG to PDF conversion? If a drawing is saved or checked in, that PDF translation looks correct and has shading. Shading is important to us. We use shaded views on the most of our drawings. The shading helps identify surface texture specification, cable colors, and helps to visualize complex products. Please add support for shaded views so that the PDF translations look like the native drawing. This would help communication, internally and to our suppliers who to hot have Solidworks or to vendors that we do not want to provide the native source files. 

 

@jason.dupree 

@glenn.walters

@christine.kirchner

@robert.gosewehr

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pranit.nagare
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I would also like the support for shaded views to be given more consideration. This limitation is causing users to create manual templates with manual rev blocks so that they can use shaded views and export drawings out natively. This has led to a mix of templates floating around. 

It has become a significant enough limitation that more engineers are in favor of going back to manually maintaining rev blocks and not using the mapping at all.

 

-Pranit

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