Michael:

Thank you for your work on this - and your direction to existing scripts.

After a very long wait - I finally became a bone fide owner of Moi, mainly due to the improvements with .dxf import functions and learning that I could change the interface to a darker scheme to relieve my tired, aging and damaged eyes (from 30 years of gazing into monitors of every description for too many hours per day). I only wish the forum had this option, as well. (it's never enough, is it?)

Of course, your interface and ease of use philosophy has always corresponded with my own - and, for these reasons and for the potential of using MoI as a replacement for so many other modeling techniques - as well as the beauty of the viewport while modeling (anti-aliasing and soft shading transitions) - I hope to do most of my practical modeling using MoI, in the future.

I still cannot achieve some of the on-screen rendering techniques (the ones exhibited for .pdf output) - or, for that matter, the step-by-step means to output to .pdf with no lines at all, only shading - with only outlines and shading - and only outlines by themselves.

Knowing how to achieve these - step-by-step - would probably help a great many owners and potential owners, as well. (he says dangling a wilted carrot).


Thanks again, for everything,

Greg Smith

Hi Greg,

> I still cannot achieve some of the on-screen rendering techniques (the ones exhibited for .pdf output)

Which particular exhibited .pdf outputs do you mean?


> - or, for that matter, the step-by-step means to output to .pdf with no lines at all, only
> shading - with only outlines and shading - and only outlines by themselves.

The PDF output assumes that you will always want to generate the regular visible lines so there isn't any built in way to disable that for the generated PDF but it is possible to configure it so that they are easily disabled later on.

To do that, push the "Line style options" button in the PDF options dialog here:



Then in the Line style options, set the layer for "Visible lines" to be a custom layer named "Visible lines" rather than the default which is to use the style name. With it configured in this way all the visible lines will be clustered together in one PDF layer and will be easier to turn off later on:




Then when you open the PDF in Adobe Reader, go to the layers pane which is here:




Inside the Adobe Reader layers pane, there will be a layer for "Visible lines" there, click the eye icon on the left side to turn it off and it won't be displayed and should not print when you do a printout:




re: "with only outlines and shading - and only outlines by themselves."

It's probably easiest to just make one single PDF with everything enabled in it and then use the layer pane as shown above to disable or enable any specific thing you want for a particular printout.

Hope this helps!

- Michael