Hi Thomas, the PDF export has been significantly reworked for the next upcoming v3 beta, so saving to a PDF and then doing a print of the PDF should work even better in the next v3 beta release. Currently you can do it, but it will only do a wireframe type display currently so that may be ok for curves but not very good for solids. The next v3 beta will have a hidden line removal mechanism in it for solids so that PDF export will work much better for solids.
Another way you can do it currently is to take a snapshot of the screen and paste that into an image processing program (Windows paintbrush will work) and then print from there. There is a script you can set up to generate a higher resolution viewport image and put it on the clipboard, check out here for info on that:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1049.5
Also a lot of people export their model into a different CAD program and then do the print from the other program. Rhino or ViaCAD can work well for that.
At some point in the future MoI will likely have it's own direct print to paper function in it, but it just hasn't been a focus area for MoI quite yet. The focus so far has been more on modeling functions and on exporting data to other programs to do other tasks that MoI does not handle itself.
- Michael
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