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The marketing department has requested I provide them information in the PSD (Photoshop) format. I'm struggling to get decent results and could use some help. (The solidworks help file on saving as PSD is lacking in information.)

There are 2 options:

When I pick screen capture the resolution is terrible.

When I pick print capture, it tries for a while, and eventually I get this useful error message: If anyone has any tips on saving a high quality photoshop image please send them my way.

I don't think you'll get PSD files, but pretty sure you could get the desired quality from extensions such as .png

I don't really know why they are forcing you to have a PSD file, it's not like they will have a file with multiple "layouts" (sorry, most likely wrong term, my PS days are from 15 years ago lol). They'll still end up with a 'flat' file as far as I'm aware.

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:39 am The marketing department has requested I provide them information in the PSD (Photoshop) format. I'm struggling to get decent results and could use some help. (The solidworks help file on saving as PSD is lacking in information.)

Maybe run it through a rendering engine like PhotoView 360 or Visualize. Mind you, the Marketing Department should install Visualize on one of their machines and unload this work from you.

That is the cool thing for Visualize, you can install it without SW.

What is your Print Capture Size?

I had the DPI maxed out trying to get the best image possible. It is now set to this and appears to be working. (I wish I could enable the "all sheets.")
We are a small company, and we all wear many hats. It is less hassle for me to give the marketing guy what makes his life easier than to try and train him so my life is easier. The really stupid part is these are just dumb 2d prints.

It looks like the quickest solution will be to take the PDF's I've already generated and use Gimp to convert them to PSD. (Nope. Gimp isn't happy with the PDF. I guess I will have to export one sheet at a time.)

Yeah, PDF's should actually be fine. Sometimes some users and programs are not very flexible.

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:39 am The marketing department has requested I provide them information in the PSD (Photoshop) format. I'm struggling to get decent results and could use some help. (The solidworks help file on saving as PSD is lacking in information.)

They don't mean they want Photoshop 3D files do they? Photoshop can open 3D files like STL & OBJ (although I think they are deprecating this feature).

Cant he/she/they just open the PDF file in photoshop?

I would take screenshots as JPGs or PDFs and send to them...
I've never had sales or marketing departments that insisted on actual Photoshop files.
This seems kindof silly.

IndianaDave wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:23 pm I would take screenshots as JPGs or PDFs and send to them...
I've never had sales or marketing departments that insisted on actual Photoshop files.
This seems kindof silly.

This makes sense. Seems silly to arbitrarily require a PSD file of a raster image. I can understand if they needed vector format, but this is raster. I'd send them a PNG and see what they do. Photoshop can open that format just fine, and they can save it out as PSD if they have a need to do that.
@SPerman, you can PM me, and put me in touch with them. I can yell at them for you.