Creating a layered display drawing on transparent/translucient paper?

[KeithBillanti]

Greetings PlanetPTC. I just found this forum today!

I am an engineering student at the Univeristy at Buffalo who has learned Wildfire 5.0 this semester. At first, I hated this program! I have experience with Rhinoceros and AutoCAD so coming into this took a bit of getting used to. Now- I really like it. I find myself using it primarily.

ANY=WAY. What I am after--

my final project is due Saturday, and its pretty much complete save for organizing it and printing it. WHAT I want to do- is create a series of parts printed on clear or semi clear paper so that when all pages are present, the whole model is present. You can remove layers by flipping pages.

I have found a source that will print on clear transparency- but i really wanted the frosted semi clear.

Also- how do i select just the geometry/model piece I want printed in Pro E? (without printing the blue background)

Is this something I would have to accomplish with photoshop?

thanks in advance!

KB

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[LeeCasey]

Hi Keith, welcome to the forums!

If you add your assembly to a drawing sheet you can 'hide' and 'unhide' components by right clicking on them in the model tree in the bottom left of the screen.

Simply hide the components and print as required. This will also solve the problem of printing on the blue background.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Lee

EDIT: Just realised you wanted to show/hide geometry as well as components. This is possible in the same way but by default the model tree does not show features/geometry if dealing with an assembly. To change this click the 'tools' icon above the model tree. Then click 'Tree Filters' and check 'Features'. You will now get a '+' beside the part so you can hide and show individual features/geometry.

[KeithBillanti]

Thanks for your reply! Ha.. little late though-

I ended up exporting everything as a PDF-- all of the layers i wanted-- and then having a friend load it into photoshop and layer it as needed.

It turned out okay--

some of my parts were silver- and when printed on clear- were not very visible.. (printed uses paper for white)

all in all- turned out well though.

thanks again!

KB