topic Re: Printing mesh ridges in Modeling

Printing mesh ridges

Tom Krowka — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:00:43 GMT

Will mesh ridges show up when printing? I know I could print the site plan and check but would have to walk over to the print shop and get a copy. Might take less time to just ask the question.
If they do, how can I turn them off but still leave the mesh on. It has a cover fill that I want to print.

Thanks Tom

Re: Printing mesh ridges

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:17:04 GMT

There are the User-defined ridges and then there are the generated ridges which will create the triangulated surface of the Mesh. The former is always shown, the latter can be set to be not visible in the Floor Plan asn Section panel of the Mesh Settings Dialog (Ridge Selection field).
Then whatever is shown in the screen will be printed.

But it seems to me that it is not possible to hide also the User-defined ridges so that only the outline of the Mesh is shown.
You could set the Uncut LIne Pen to white but that would make white both User-defined ridges and the contour of the Mesh. So I don't have an idea of how you could hide them easily.

Re: Printing mesh ridges

Tom Krowka — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:40:44 GMT

Hmmmmm. How about if I set those ridges to have a color with a pen weight of "0". They might so light they might not print.

Tom

Re: Printing mesh ridges

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:53:53 GMT

You would have to try that.
Normally 0 width means that it will be printed with the thinnest line possible by the printer.