How To Make Transparent 2d Drawing In Rhino

get rid of all extraneous stuff that is non going to announced in your make2d dwg and select that which is deliberately and carefully to make certain no extra stuff gets selected. Also, close out all other programs running in the background to gratuitous up every bit much ram as possible.
              Apr 13, 09  iii:41 pm							 ·            
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This has been the eternal trouble with Make2d'southward. I've had some run for vi or viii hours on my dual-cadre macbook pro. When models get complex, they take fifty-fifty longer, it'southward a bit like an exponentially directly proportion. A few tips I've picked upwardly:
              1. use the 'selvisible' control to simply select what you can see in the viewport. This takes everything that'south not seen and deselects it from the make2d command.            
              2. make the cartoon one or 2 layers at a time... this adds a chip to the cleanup fourth dimension but profoundly reduces the time the program spends making the drawing.
              3. brand certain nothing is referenced or attached via blockmanager- all of it should be 'actually' in the file as geometry. Save as and explode the blocks if necessary.
              Apr 13, 09  iii:46 pm							 ·            
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Thank you for the tips guys-looks similar I was making all of the above mistakes!I think Ill make a special Make2d file next time.
              Thanks
              Apr xv, 09  half-dozen:sixteen am							 ·            
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tried information technology in v5?
              Apr 15, 09  4:57 pm							 ·            
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Does Penguin and it's vector supervene upon Make2D?          
              Apr 15, 09  7:55 pm							 ·            
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more similar complement with additional artistic styles
              you tin can e'er just get the Raster screen shot at whatsoever resolution you like with the  '-viewcapturetofile' command   having 'testsetaalevel' on loftier with the proper graphics card power or just re-size a overshot in a raster editor as well
              April 16, 09  2:08 pm							 ·            
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ok that last annotate is awesome about the AA levels and  the view capture..that makes my day
          
              Apr sixteen, 09  ii:24 pm							 ·            
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ditto! WOW! thanks anti!
              Apr 16, 09  two:32 pm							 ·            
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in add-on to the things already said, it's worth noting that make2d is a unmarried threaded procedure - meaning (in today's tech) a fast dual core is going to be faster than a slower clocked equivalent quad or october.
              faster ram seems to help besides, more doesn't seem to help since it's pretty easy to slam into the 2GB app. limit in windows x86 with make2d. I don't call up I always tested if information technology could go to 4GB on xp-x64, but it might.
              my tape on make2d was 26hr on an exploded construction diagram (dual p4 xeon). Really I just had way over modeled the details.
              Apr 17, 09  11:35 am							 ·            
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I've also found that the make2d command is very sensitive to the tolerance setting of the certificate.
              High tolerance is necessary to generate a clean drawing, simply seems to slow down the process exponentially. So if I'm not making a technical cartoon or programme on doing a lot of cleanup later, reducing the tolerance allows yous to make a drawing from a large & complex model relatively quickly.
              Apr 17, 09  12:50 pm							 ·            
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the statement about AA is "generally" true for most output processes, esp, rendering from a 3d scene.            
              when i'thousand using 3ds max + final render or sketchUP at work, i'll exit the AA very low or fifty-fifty OFF altogether and just render a larger image than what is needed for concluding presentation/print.  by the fourth dimension y'all scale the larger, but not AA'd image downwards, the quality is nearly the same merely the output fourth dimension is usually much much shorter considering you're not splitting pixels.
              Apr 17, 09  12:57 pm							 ·            
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I by and large make-2d in parts.  I read that someone said it takes more time in clean up, simply I've establish the exact contrary.  Usually, the more item involved (both in the design and in the tolerance) the buggier the command gets.  I likewise always etch my drawings in illustrator, and if I have them set up up correctly I but stack the layers in the right order with an opaque fill up beneath each ane.
              This allows me to eliminate parts of the drawing and swap with updates, information technology also allows me to just hide parts and utilise similar parts of the drawing over and over.  The sum of the parts is normally more useful and nicer looking than the original whole.
              Apr 17, 09  2:59 pm							 ·            
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A quick way to speed upwardly the make2D is to alter the units of your drawing to something larger. Like, go from mm to m and you will see a tremendous comeback. I think, its like the previous posters mentioned, the precision is what kills it.            
            Aloha,            
            iLYa
Penguin on "technical" or similar settings takes what Make2d does in an hour and does it in xx seconds. Vector output is a good thing... Will accept some minor cleanup you lot may have to do merely thats something you're already familiar with Make2d....  Student license is 95 dollars and i recollect its helpful, amend than sitting waiting for Make2d to run for an hr just to run out of ram (i accept 4gb.. its just drawing lines).  Not certain how useful this would be in a professional environment but its useful for me for cartoon exploded axon'southward etc.
            Hopefully this we'll see this fixed in Rhinoceros 5...
            Hullo. This thread is really former, but ill give it a try.
            My problem is that when I make second, I get a lot of lines, polylines and splines. I wonder if in that location is a way to simplify the lines, curves for export to Autocad. I have tried the control overkill, only it does non seem to clean up the vertexes enough. A simple round object can take similar l vertexes.
            Whatever idea would be appreciated....
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              Sep 2, 12  12:16 pm							 ·            
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            You could 'seldup' in Rhino to get rid of overlapped lines, or just 'rebuild' lines that accept way too many CV's.
              Sep 2, 12  12:twoscore pm							 ·            
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If anyone could aid information technology would exist very appreciated.
I'm using rhinoceros for mac (temporary set back) and trying to make 2d drawings to print for models. When I click 'create 2d drawing' the layer created is empty. Any suggestions?
              April 19, fourteen  9:34 am							 ·            
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Ellastone, are you using the correct viewport settings to see curves? If your viewport is in rendered mode, it won't show curves unless you changed the properties.
              April 19, 14  1:52 pm							 ·            
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