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insert a 3d view into 2d tracing?

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warrenelec

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Oct 31, 2003
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I am trying to get a 3d view into a 2d drawing and cannot get it to look like what I want. The person who worked here before me seems to have traced a sw isometric view in the model to create a 2d view for the drawing. does anyone know how he did it? I have tried all kinds of methods such as hide, render, and .dxb import, but can only get wireframe models or low quality hidden lines models. I am essentially trying to get a hidden lines model that is a 2d representation and looks more realistic like one created in a solidworks or pro/engineer drawing.
thanks for any help.
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Do you have a 3D solid to work with?

If so, go into a paperspace viewport (open one of the layouts - presuming version = 2xxx then double-click inside the viewport).

Then use the view icons to select which view you'd like.

Then use solprof.

This will create 2D entities of your 3D solid projected into whatever plane you're viewing from.

This is a great way to create an isometric view, too.
 
One possiblility is that the 3D objects were drawn in Model Space, and then he went to a layout (paperspace). While in a layout, he created a viewport, clicked inside it to make it active, and then used the "solprof" command. After using the Solprof command, you may either choose to move the 2D created by Solprof, or turn the object layer off in that viewport. If you don't move it, the object and 2D will overlap each other in the viewport and it will not look correctly.

 
I have used the solprof command to create a 2d view, then used the hide command to remove hidden lines. However, if i change the view at all (i.e. using the pan or zoom commands, the hidden lines return to the view. Can this be avoided? I want to have a hidden lines view that can be edited and remain hidden.
 
Sorry Binary, it seems I basically restated what you said. We must have been typing at the same time, but you beat me to the punch because there wasn't a reply before my answer.

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The way the I do it is to simply freeze the layer with the hidden lines (usually PH-xxx). If I want to see them in model space but not in paperspace then I go into the viewport and freeze-in-current-viewport.

I am not familiar with the HIDE command.
 
Can you make a rendered 3D image showing the solid object, lighted and shaded the way you wish, from the viewpoint you wish? Then you could capture that image in a Window and use the bitmap or Windows metafile in a graphics program to edit away the frame around the image, just leaving the image components you wish. Then you can take this image file back to AutoCAD as an imported 2D image and position and scale it to appear where and how you wish.
 
This was found on a previous question about rendering and shading for an image of a 3D object:
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Assuming you are using ACAD 2000, you are forgetting that this cannot be done. You must apply materials to the solids, add lights, and render. If all you need is a quick shaded picture of your solids, here is what I do; I shade the drawing in AutoCad, push the "print screen" button on the key board (make sure your cross hairs are not on the oject), open MS paint, paste in the screen shot (edit, paste), enclose the object and select cut, open a new MS paint file and paste the cut object into it. This works good for presentations.
 
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