Printing in X

[RandleXX]

I sure liked hardcopy much better

If you check shaded it will also print background color. NO more simple hardcopies with shaded parts???

[Brendan P]

I don't have your answer,but I cant even believe the guy who thought it was 'Vaporware' has got X before a true believer like me!!!

WTF

[L Hanft]

Under page setup is you choose shaded and color you get foreground color and background color. I would expect this. If you uncheck color but leave shaded checked you get a monochrome (gray)shaded object with a white background. All solids are output as gray no matter their screen color. If you want solids or other objects without the colored background but have them print in color, temporally set the background to white, print and change back you might be able to create a shortcut or a macro to do this. Oh yea I'm using the vaper ware........

[crazy^millman]

Here is a script I worked on with help for V9 that could be changed to do what you are after with one click of the button.

 

code:

---

'////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

'//

'// Author: Crazy^Millman help from Matt aka Rekd

'// Date: 12/10/2004

'// File Name: CAPTURE FOR SETUP SHEETS

'//

'// Description: Changes the background to white, opens up clipboard,

'// Then changes background back to black

'//

'// Comments: Save about 20 mouse clicks

'//

'////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 

Const CLIP_BOARD = "clipbrd"

' -- Start Script

Call Main()

 

 

' ////////////////////

' Sub Declaration

' ////////////////////

Sub Main()

 

 

' -- Invoke color selector and preselect light blue

Call SetBackGroundColor(mcCOLOR_WHITE)

 

' -- Force a repaint otherwise we wont see the change, handy for exporting images!

Call RepaintScreen(True)

 

Call RunMastercamCommand(CLIP_BOARD)

 

Call SetBackGroundColor(mcCOLOR_BLACK)

 

Call RepaintScreen(True)

 

End Sub

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Just need to change CLIP_BOARD to hardcopy and that might just do it.

 

HTH

[TREV]

ron,

have you tried this in x yet? im trying to figure somthing out myself right now and was curious.

also i use some set up sheets i created for the edm guys that shows x,y,z locations for the trodes at the bottom of the page.then i run it thru the printer to put a isometric pic at the top of page.it seems now when i print i can not get the picture at the top.

any ideas

trevor

[kinglouie V]

All right, just in case there is anyone as slow as me here it is. go to your screen settings/shading settings/ and then change shading "GLOBALLY" to create the old hard copy affect.

 

 

 

[RandleXX]

Using color and shaded in the print settings with a b/w printer did the trick.