b & w 3D pic for job board

[Tom Krowka]

Am looking for some suggestions to generate a good quality, 3D, blackand white, shaded view of a building for job site sign. Will be blown up to fit on the board.

Have generated one in sketch mode, looks good on screen, saved to a jpeg with highest quality everything in the dialog box, including 1200 dpi.

Prints out pretty blurry. Is there a better format to save as then jpeg, or with any of the three other engines. Have a pretty good hidden line with internal engine, but doesn't do the shadows only the outline of the shadows.

Thanks.

[MMontgomery]

Take a look at the actual pixel count. It is going to be blurry if your rendering is 800x600 and your printing it to fit on an 8.5 x11 sheet. dpi doesnt matter if your scaling the image.

Determine the size of the final print you want in inches, multiply those inches by the dpi you want - typically 300 or 150 (72 for anything just seen on a computer presentation) - and the resulting number is the pixel count you want to set your rendering at.

1200dpi is unneccesary, 150 actually works well for a large format print seen from the street.

So if you want the final print to be 24" x 36"
- 300dpi would be 7200 pixels by 10800 pixels
- 150dpi would be 3600 pixels by 5400 pixels

JPG is OK, but I prefer PNG or PDF

[Tom Krowka]

I never would have known that.
Will give it a whirl. Thanks.

[Tom Krowka]

tried it....does not work for me. All I get is a solid grey screen....no generation of anything.

TK.

[MMontgomery]

What size is the image are you rendering (X pixels by Y pixels) and what is your screen resolution?

I'm wondering if the image rendered is large enough that the gray you are seeing might be a corner of a much larger image.

If it isn't that, then it might be a rendering setting other than resolution.

[Tom Krowka]

Got it. Not sure what happened the first time, but did it all again and worked out great. Thanks....take the rest of the day off.

Tom

[MMontgomery]

Glad to help!

Cheers!

Mike