Edge display thickness on screen

[petesprada]

Hi all,


Does anyone know if the thickness of edges can be increased on screen when in edge display mode? I am taking screenshots of my model and pasting them into documents but the linework comes in too thin and berely visible when scaled down.


Cheers,


Peter

 

[[-Skint-]]

I had this issue too. I ended up inporting into illustrator and increasing the line weight to get the job done.


It certainly helps a lot of you alter a couple of settings.


Under View / Model Display - Edge/Line tab, tick Smooth Lines. Under the Shade tab set your quality to 10.
Edited by: [-Skint-]

 

[bimbo666]

Also I supposed you have this option enable on your config:


show_shaded_edges / yes /


Regards


2009-03-25_095038_2025e101.zip

 

[petesprada]

what I need is screenshots in black+white linework, rather than a shaded image.

 

[[-Skint-]]

not sure if you have thought of this or not... but changing the appearence of your parts/surfaces also has an effect of how the lines edges show up... for instance, alter the colour of your part to black and then view in edge view compared to a white model.

 

[petesprada]

yeah, have already tried that. i actually switched the model display completely yo black and white, but still the line-work is very thin.

 

[[-Skint-]]

how exactly are you "taking screenshots" ? Are you using the "save as" option in pro-e and saving a copy as a jpeg ?


If that is the case, then I agree that the line weight seems to get reduced during the conversion. If you have access to photoshop or any imaging software, then rather than save as a jpeg, just do a screen grab and then crop the image to size accordingly. It seems to give more contrast.

 

[petesprada]

i am using the 'printscreen' key on a windows keybord, but you get the same results when saving as a jpeg/tiff.