PHOTOWORKS VECTOR OUTPUT

[37LMR]

I am trying to render to a file that my advertising department can use. They want a vector based file. They are telling me that all of the options are bit map style.

Is there another way I can save a rendering that they can use?

thanks for the help

 

[Theophilus]

Nope. Not a vector-based image. Unless you save a line drawing to PDF format, no vectors.



Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

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[Theophilus]

By the way, you can save a rendering at huge resolutions (they take a long time). I've never had marketing shinies give me a problem with high-resolution raster images, so it sounds to me like their vector-only demand is a bit inflexible. (How big will they possibly blow it up?)



Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.

 

[NickE]

From my understanding a vector based raytrace image is an impossibility.

Raytracing uses a method of backtracing the rays of light that enter the camera scene. If you dont have a raster grid (output resolution) to start with then the rays would have to be calculated from each light source, this would exponentially increase the amount of calculation needed. Since relatively few of the rays of light that leave each source actually enter the camera, most go off to nowhere leaving an indeterminate system.

nick

 

[MadMango]

You might want to give

http://vectormagic.com

a try.

I have a friend that is in the sign business, and this works really well, though there is a cost associated.

"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."

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[ctopher]

Try:
Save as a drawing. Then "Save as" and change the file type to either Adobe Photoshop Files (*.psd) or Adobe Illustrator (*.ai).
They should be able to import these file types and use as they please.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
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