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    • L Offline
      Lang
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      Hi all,

      I would like to know if I can display shadings from my Google sketchup file in the pdf 3D file ?
      On my sketchup file I can display the shadows but when I create the 3D pdf it disappear ....

      Thanks for your help !

      PS: I'm using Google Sketchup v7 (free version) and 3D pdf (2.0 purchase version)

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        TIG Moderator
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        The SUp built-in PDF Exporter is for 'vector line work' only and doesn't support shadows etc - it's rather like a DWG export in that respect...
        If you want to make a PDF of a scene with shadows et al [just as you might export an image file as a JPG or PNG] then you just download a free [or an inexpensive] PDF-writer.
        It'll becomes an additional Printer - you simply print to that instead of your paper printer.
        The PDF is saved - usually named after your model in a selected folder/desktop...
        I use PDF995, but there's lots of others that are 'free' - see CutePDF, BullzipPDFprinter, PrimoPDF, PDFreDirect, PDFCreator etc - Google 'Free PDF Writer'...
        The 3D PDF version doesn't take in the shadows either [I think?]...

        TIG

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