Vector Illustration Window

Use

You can use the Vector Illustration window to render a scene as a vector illustration.

Features

The following functions are available from the Vector Illustration window.

Fields

Functional Description

File

Displays the location and name under which the illustration is saved.

Browse

Used to select the location and name for the saved illustration

Format

Used to select the format in which you want to save the illustration. The options that display in both this window and the advanced settings window differ depending on the file format selected.

  • AutoCAD Drawing Interchange (.dxf): Saves in the AutoCAD (.dxf) format

  • Right Hemisphere binary (.rh): Saves in the Right Hemisphere binary (.rh) format

  • Computer Graphics Metafile binary (.cgm): Saves in the Computer Graphics Metafile Binary (.cgm) format

  • Shockwave Flash Object (.swf): Saves in the ShockWave Flash Object (.swf) format

  • Scalable Vector Graphic (.svg): Saves in the Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) format

  • Tagged Image File Format (.tif): Saves in the Tagged Image (.tiff) format

  • Adobe Encapsulated Postscript (.eps): Saves in the Adobe Encapsulated Postscript (.eps) format

Thickness

Determines the thickness of rendered lines and boundaries

  • Line: Determines the thickness of rendered lines. Note that when entering a line thickness number, the units for measuring line thickness is determined by the 'Output Size', and if you enter 0 (zero), lines are created as 1 divided by infinity. That is, absolutely thin.

  • Boundary: Determines the thickness of the object boundaries, range is 0-10

Tolerance Angle (degrees)

Determines the degree of angle tolerance for all rendered outlines. If the angle between two adjacent faces is greater than this value, then the edge between these faces is treated as an outline edge

Calculate Intersections

Draws lines along all face-face intersections. Vectors are normally calculated using triangle edges. If the lines of intersection fall outside of triangle edges where geometry or objects intersect each other, this option can be used to calculate the triangle intersections and output them as vectors.

Show as Wireframe

Causes all edges to be treated as outline edges. The tolerance angle setting becomes redundant when this is selected

Output Size

Used to specify the illustration's size and orientation when printed.

  • Properties: Used to adjust the output size of the illustration

  • Show output size: Used to display the output size of the illustration on the screen

Colors

Used to select the colors to use in the illustration

  • Object: Uses the object's color for the rendered lines

  • Line: Used to open the color selector to select a color for rendered lines. This option is only available if the Object check box is not selected

  • Background: Used to open the color selector to select a color for the background. This option is only available when saving the illustration to .cgm, .swf, and ,svg formats

BOM

Used to determine if and where the BOM is placed on the illustration

  • None: Excludes the BOM from the illustration

  • Bottom: Places the BOM at the bottom of the illustration

  • Right: Places the BOM at the right of the illustration

  • Text file: Saves the BOM as a separate text file

  • XML file: Saves the BOM as a separate xml file