Presentation of drawings

[michael john williams]

We are trying to set up a A2 presentation template to print out as 2 no A3 drawings that can be displayed on an A2 presentation board or in our A3 portfolio. The idea is to show together a variety of drawings, photos, images at different scales. It will contain VW plans, elevations, perspectives, axos, etc of our completed work. All drawings are completed in VW, Architect or/ Renderworks. Also all the drawings are viewports and so the initial problem was we could not just copy and paste into the new drawing template. We tried saving each drawing as an image and importing it in and this worked great - except for the line drawings, ie plans. which were not very sharp even though the resolution was saved in the image file as 300dpi. We have tried a mixture of image files and copy / paste plans but then all the layer scales have to be the same which causes problems.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

[David Ormsby]

Viewports are dependant on the design layers in the drawing. You need to copy the design layers as well.

[michael john williams]

Ye.......I have been thinking it through and the best way to do it would be to set the presentaion drawing as a viewport in the actual proposed file and set up viewports of each image / drawing required then it avoids copying the design layers.

[DDDesign]

Michael, although you've figured out a way, I'd just like to add a note about exporting images. When exporting, you can set the dpi, but you also have to make sure the image size is set reasonably large. Preferably use a Tiff, or other uncompressed format to save, - not a jpeg, especially for line drawings. And above all, make sure that the sheet layer itself is set at 300dpi or more (all sheet layers have their own resolution settings). No matter what the print resolution is set, it won't come out better than what the sheet layer is set to.