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Using Punch! ViaCAD Pro 8 and CorelDraw 7 I used to create simple isometric drawings for instructions of some of my products. I would select an object view such as isometric,select the "display hidden line" and export to .eps and then import the .eps into CorelDraw. CorelDraw would import it with all the hidden lines not visible and I could edit the object, scale it, change line weights, etc. Now with ViaCAD Pro 10 and CorelDraw X8 no matter what I try all the lines are visible, the only way to get rid of the hidden lines is to delete them, which for complex parts could take days.
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Do You have tried to put the lines to hidden in different layers to the objects and hide the complete layer in the ConceptExplorer?
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Originally Posted by: Guest Using Punch! ViaCAD Pro 8 and CorelDraw 7 I used to create simple isometric drawings for instructions of some of my products. I would select an object view such as isometric,select the "display hidden line" and export to .eps and then import the .eps into CorelDraw. CorelDraw would import it with all the hidden lines not visible and I could edit the object, scale it, change line weights, etc. Now with ViaCAD Pro 10 and CorelDraw X8 no matter what I try all the lines are visible, the only way to get rid of the hidden lines is to delete them, which for complex parts could take days.
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Could you use the model to sheet or single draw view and turn off hidden lines.flatten the dtaw view and then export as.eps
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Many thanks for the heads up, repeated, found and fixed. This will be corrected in the 1352 builds.
Doing a model to sheet as Jason mentioned should produce your hidden eps file.
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Originally Posted by: jdi000 Originally Posted by: Guest Using Punch! ViaCAD Pro 8 and CorelDraw 7 I used to create simple isometric drawings for instructions of some of my products. I would select an object view such as isometric,select the "display hidden line" and export to .eps and then import the .eps into CorelDraw. CorelDraw would import it with all the hidden lines not visible and I could edit the object, scale it, change line weights, etc. Now with ViaCAD Pro 10 and CorelDraw X8 no matter what I try all the lines are visible, the only way to get rid of the hidden lines is to delete them, which for complex parts could take days.
Mike
Could you use the model to sheet or single draw view and turn off hidden lines.flatten the dtaw view and then export as.eps
Regards
Jason
I tried that too, no joy. Another issue with model to sheet (and I know its probably something I'm doing wrong) is sometimes it will model it with 3 views with an isometric drawing and sometimes with just one view of the part. Also Model to Sheet will tell me that parts are in multiple layers, however the "change layer" is greyed out and doesn't work.
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Originally Posted by: jdi000 Originally Posted by: Guest Using Punch! ViaCAD Pro 8 and CorelDraw 7 I used to create simple isometric drawings for instructions of some of my products. I would select an object view such as isometric,select the "display hidden line" and export to .eps and then import the .eps into CorelDraw. CorelDraw would import it with all the hidden lines not visible and I could edit the object, scale it, change line weights, etc. Now with ViaCAD Pro 10 and CorelDraw X8 no matter what I try all the lines are visible, the only way to get rid of the hidden lines is to delete them, which for complex parts could take days.
Mike
Could you use the model to sheet or single draw view and turn off hidden lines.flatten the dtaw view and then export as.eps
Regards
Jason
Yea I tried that, no luck. Also when I use "Model to Sheet" sometimes the part is shown in three views with an isometric view included, sometimes its just one view of the part (it's probably something I'm doing wrong). "Model to Sheet" will also tell me that parts are in multiple layers, however the "Change layer" is greyed out and will not work.
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Just to give everybody an idea of what I'm talking about I have included a set of instructions that I created using the methods that used to work. It was extremely quick and easy to create line drawings and include text, photo's, callouts, etc. in CorelDraw and then export it to PDF. The line drawings and simple diagrams made for a small file size PDF. As you can see from the grates if all the lines were visible, trying to delete all the unnecessary would take forever.
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Originally Posted by: Tim Olson
I finally got around to downloading the latest build on both my Windows and Mac versions of viaCAD. The windows version works perfectly and I can import .eps drawings into CorelDraw from exported .eps viaCAD files as I used to do before. The Mac sort of works. When I import .eps files to a third party vector program such as Affinity designer that were exported as .eps on the Mac in viaCAD, the hidden lines are no longer visible but only a corner of the object imports for some reason. I've tried different views, zooming in and out, changing paper sizes, etc and still just a part of the object imports. It's not a big deal for me since I want to use CorelDraw for my instruction sheets and graphics anyway and as I said it works fine now. Also the .eps files exported in the mac viaCAD work import into the PC CorelDraw fine as well so it could just be an issue with the Mac vector programs.
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