Wireframe lines on a solid in X2

[PATTSUPV]

When I create a solid layout in X2 it gives me all of the wireframe line besides just the outline. Is there any way to turn this off? It makes the drawing almost illegible. I don't recall V9 doing this.

[Hardmill]

Do you have the "suppress hidden lines" box checked ??

 

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PEACE

[Hardmill]

You can also toggle thru all your option after select OK and pick a level.

 

 

PEACE

[Colin Gilchrist]

Try also setting your radial curve display angle to 180 degrees to reduce the number of lines on an isometric view.

[PATTSUPV]

I did toggle the hidden lines, these lines are not hidden they are lines that should not be on a 2-D view, they just make it hard to read. I will try the radial curve display and see how that works but the problem is not in the isometric view. Apparently V9 did this also but I never realized it because I worked only with 3-D models. Now I have to produce a 2-D view for Engineering to make a layout from and it is pretty discouraging to see the results. I can't believe this has never come up before?

[crazy^millman]

Yes V9 did this and a lot worse. It got better in one of the Beta cycles. 180 radial display is going to be about as good as it gets. I spend hours a week sometimes removing all the extra junk. Solidworks, Pro-E, UG, and other Cad systems do not do this, but they are CAD systems not Cam systems.

 

Sorry can not offer a better picture over what it is.

 

It has been talked about and asked about many many times.

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Ron will be happy to hear that the X3's Solid Layout function will have a Radial Angle control AND a checkbox next to it to turn it off or on.

 

also...

 

In X2 MR2, there is a backdoor method available to turn them off. If you've run Solids Layout at least once, there should be a CommonPrmDrawing.PRM file. Open this in a text editor and find the line that looks like this...

 

10 0

 

...change it to this...

 

10 1

 

That will turn off display of the radial angle lines altogether.

[crazy^millman]

Thanks for the tip Pete, but that was already 1 in mine. It is the other way around it is 1 change it to 0 and they go away. So thanks it did work.

 

Not that I ever complained about this.