Creation of coloured JPEG

[EUANS]

I am trying to create a JPEG from a Soldiworks drawing which has shaded/coloured views. When I open the JPEG it is in monochrome and has poor resolution.
From previous experience of creating PDFs, I have discovered that the option for print colour within the page set-up dialogue should be set to "colour/grey scale" if you want a coloured PDF. This setting appears to make no difference when creating a JPEG.
Is it possible to create a coloured JPEG? Are there settings where you can specify the resolution?

 

[SBaugh]

Turn your Screen Resolution up for better res on your Jpegs. Personally, I just take a screen shot and crop out what I want. It saves me a lot of time.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

I have found the same when creating both jpg & tif. The workaround is to save the drawing as an ".edrw" first, then save as jpg or tif from the eDrawing module.

from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

 

[fatherfuh]

Unless you really need the .jpg format, it is much easier and faster to simply do a Print Screen and crop, as someone else has mentioned.

 

[ctopher]

There must be a setting somewhere. I have not found it yet. Mine has always saved as color. If I find it, I'll let you know.

 

[SBaugh]

What about turning up Res and your Color quality too?

I run 1600x1200 Res. and 32-bit Color Quality. I just saved a JPEG file directly from SW and it looks great. Not grainy at all.

Try those setting and see if that fixes your problem.

Regards

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[ctopher]

I have the same settings as Scott. It works.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

EUANS
What Version & SP of SolidWorks are you using?

I am running SW04 SP1 & have same problem as you with jpg & tif (didn't in SW03).

I have 32bit colour ... resolution is not an issue.
PDF & eDrawings works fine, so I assume it is a glitch in SP1.

from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

 

[SBaugh]

SW04 SP3.0

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Thanks Scott, but I was asking EUANS

Have another coffee

from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

 

[SBaugh]

Sorry I guess I'm still ...

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[JNR]

No problems with colored JPEGs or TIFFs here. You should note however that if resolution is an issue, JPEG runs from screen resolution off the graphics interface, whereas TIFFs (can - it's an option) run from "print" resolution - ie. it is recalculated and will give much higher res results. Downside (....nothing is ever free!) the files are much larger.

John Richards Sr. Mech. Engr.
Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics

There are only 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

[EdDanzer]

Check thread559-89743
I have seen no evidence changing screen resolution will give more than a 72 dpi screen print. SolidWorks does a .jpg save the same as a screen print.
What resolution are you wanting?

 

[Theophilus]

My screen (ViewSonic G90f--19") displays at 96 dpi. Interesting tricks can be done w/PhotoShop and screen capture software to determine whether this is true, but it appears to be so.

Anyway, because of my resolution settings and the dot pitch of my monitor, I'm able to exceed the standard 72 dpi. I've heard of higher dpi grades (over 100--something like 104 or such).

For what that's worth. ..




Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

 

[EUANS]

CorBlimeyLimey,
Sorry for the delay in responding but I don't work Mondays. I'm runing 2004 sp2.1. Creation of PDFs is always okay, occasionally I have seen e-drawings saving in black & white (size dependent?)
From memory when I last successfully created a coloured JPEG I think I was using SWX 2003.