Export drawing / image as Shaded with Edges + Shaded

[Mr_Assembly]

Hi everyone,

I am glad to have found this forum with so much content and help. I was trying to find info on how to export drawings as Shaded with edges and Shaded, but did not find any topic that fit this description.

I have the latest SolidWorks build installed and I can export drawings fine as exploded view with "hidden lines removed", but cannot seem to do the same when the modell / assembly is in Shaded with Edges or just Shaded.

What could I be doing wrong?

Saving the image as a PDF, turns the image to a low-resolution image, and saving as *.dxf, just makes another line drawing.

[mike miller]

Go to System Options>Export> File Format: PDF, and see if your settings match mine.

[Mr_Assembly]

Hi Mike, thank you for your quick answer. I checked the settings, and they were like yours, I tried to export the image and I got this result:



I went back and change the settings to 300 dpi instead of 96, and got this result:



- which is so much better, but the lines are very thick on the whole image. How can I change them?



In 600 dpi it looks like this:



It is easy to change the thickness of lines in Illustrator when I have a dxf-file, but is it possible to change in SolidWorks instead, before the export has happened?

I tried to open the exported PDF-file in Illustrator, and it opened fine, but since the shaders are on the top, I cannot change the thickness of lines that easy, using "same appearance".

Any help on this matter would be very appreciated.

EDIT!

I found the "Line Font Menu" and changed the settings there to 0.18mm instead of 0.25mm, and the result is better. When I tried the "Custom option", I could not change down to 0.12mm from 0.18mm.

[DanPihlaja]

Thy checking this option and see what you get:

Without High quality edges selected:

With High quality edges selected:

[SPerman]

It is possible to change the line thickness in the document properties. I'm not sure which one will affect the behavior.

[Mr_Assembly]

Thank you for your help and support. I was able to fix all of the issues; exporting to PDF in 600 dpi did the trick with Shaded with edges, and in Illustrator all the coloured parts are marked as <clip group>. Closing these and then selecting the artwork I was able to make the lines as thin as I wanted, and then turn on the layers again.