kimmo Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Hi, I use hidden line renderings to create quick floorplans and elevations with dimensions and annotations. I save the generated image and attach it to my pdf. Sadly the text and dimensions look like a 4 year old wrote them, not crisp and professional at all. Text and dimensions look fine when they are in wire frame but when hidden line image is generated all the text and dims become blurred. Please let me know what settings make the hidden line text and dimension text crispier. Thanks, Kimmo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 looks good to me. What version, and os? And post a simple file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmo Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 Hi, Please see attached sample files. FormZ 8.0.2 OS X OS X Yosemite MAC Pro (Mid 2012) wire frame.tiff hidden line.tiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 post a FMZ file... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmo Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 see attached fmz. file hidden line issues.fmz.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisA Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Hidden Line is putting an outline around the text. I converted 61" to facetted object and put a 1 interior edge in hidden line. The bigger the interior edges the text is being stroked. Do not know if there is a work around. I tried a white color edge but that did not work. Maybe tech has a solution. Guess you can put dimensions on own layer and combine in photoshop by letting dimensions be on a darken layer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmo Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 FormZ Tech support, Could you help me out here? Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibui Design Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Use layout for things like this. Although not perfect, this is the best way to manage this. Hopefully one day we will have a more robust layout, but for now, it works okay for simple tasks like the drawings you show in your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Hi Kimmo, That's strange -- our answer is not showing here for some reason -- sorry about that. I am not sure why this is showing jaggy, but we have reproduced it and will get it corrected. If you Fit before Export, then it will be better, but not perfect. If you use the Export Image DWG command, Import that file, and then Export to a bitmap image, you should get nice crisp results. Does that help? EDIT -- or you can use Layout as EnvDesign suggests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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