Hi Michael,

Thanks for all your help. I tried the method you suggested and it didn't work for me. It is a large file and I gave it a thorough inspection. My STEP file is 156mb and 110 individual parts (actually, with all the fixings its more), so its understandable that your not going to get too much done in less than 4gb of RAM. So I broke the model down to 10 3DM files and I added a line all around the view so it would crop them at the same size on export, and saved each as a PDF. It worked out that the tyres are very memory intensive and to my surprise, some of the pipe work had to be left off as they took up too much memory. That and the front ladder. Compped the 10 PDF's in Photoshop (only 300dpi) and I have what I need. It takes a bit of work but now I have a process to do it, I can cost that in to any work I do. I look forward to a 64bit version but I know you have other things to think about.

Thanks again for your help Michael


Paul

Images are

1. Finished image

2. Transparent layers in PS

3. Model in Moi