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DesignStream Interface + WWW
Publishing
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Properties of the Document to be Published
You can select different properties for a document to be
published, depending on what you publish, to which file format you
publish and what is the publishing destination.
- When you publish Vertex files, the original file format is vxp
or vxm.
- You can publish Vertex files to file formats vxp, vxm, jpeg,
png, tiff, swf, pdf, dwg or dxf.
- You can publish documents to a folder, to the DesignStream
system or to a printer.
General Properties
Properties common for all file types are:
- Classification - Double-click a field in the
Value column and select a classification in the dialog box.
The classification determines the document's class.
- Description - The default description is the file type
you chose when adding the file to the document set. You can enter a
new description in the text field.
- File Name - The published destination file has as a
default the same name as the selected source file. You can also
publish the document under a different file name. Enter the
destination file name in the text field.
- Publicity - The property is used to manage the
visibility of the document in the DesignStream system. Select
publicity from the list.
Publishing a 3D Model
When you publish a 3D model (vxm), you can select following
properties for a document:
Publishing a 2D Drawing
When you publish a 2D drawing (vxp), you can select following
properties for a document:
- Layer group - When you publish a 2D drawing, you can
select the elements that will be visible in the drawing
layer-group-specifically. When you select a layer group, all of its
layers are activated. All layers not belonging to the layer group
are inactive. Select a layer group from the list.
- Update dynamic texts - When you want to update the text
macros of a drawing when publishing it, type 1 in the text field in
the Value column.
Updating
a Text Macro
- Hidden line - When you want to remove the hidden lines,
type 1 in the text field in the Value column.
Remove
Hidden Lines
Publishing to an Image File
The type of an image file is either jpeg, png or tiff.
- Width, Height - Define the resolution of an image file
in pixels. Enter the width and the height in the text fields in the
Value column.
- Quality of Visualization - When you publish an image
file from a 3D model, you can choose one of the following as the
model's presentation method:
- Flat - The model will be shaded as even faces with the colors
of the elements. The effect of lights is not calculated.
- Preview - A rough shader method that will take into account the
materials, lights and background. The transparency will not be
calculated.
- Full - A more accurate shader method than Preview, the
transparency calculation is also included. Often the most useful
shader method, suitable for various materials.
- Preview + Antialiasing - Like Preview, but steep color
gradients are smoothed.
- Full + Antialiasing - Like Preview + Antialiasing, but bitmap
color gradients are also smoothed. The slowest shader method.
- Shading (OpenGL) - The model elements are shaded with flat
colors.
If this property is not defined, OpenGL shading
will be used as the presentation method.
You can publish a visualized model only if the
Visualization add-on feature is available to you.
- New drawing limits - You can use this property to
control whether the drawing/model limits are redefined or the last
saved drawing limits are used. Select either of the following from
the list in the Value field:
- Yes - Limits will be redefined. Default value for image
files published from drawings (vxp).
- No - New limits are not redefined. Default value for
image files published from models (vxm).
- Preview image - You can define this property when
publishing an image file of a 3D model to the DesignStream system.
When this property has a Yes value, the image file will be
published in the DesignStream system as the preview image of the
house model.
Publishing to a PDF File
When you publish a drawing or a model to a pdf file, you can
select following properties for a document:
- Line width setup file - You can define pen colors for a
PDF file or when publishing a document on a printer. The pen colors
are defined in a line width setup file which is read from the
../custom/fonts folder. The line width setup file has a .lset
extension. Select the name of the line width setup file to be used
from the list in the Value column, for example
Color.lset.
- Colors by screen and true linewidths - If you do not
wish to use a line width setup file, set the Colors by screen
and true linewidths property to 1. The lines will be
printed with the colors displayed on the screen and with true line
widths taking into account the printing scale. When the property is
set to 0, a line width setup file will be used.
- New drawing limits - You can define this property for
PDF files or drawing sets included in a PDF book (for example
elev*.vxp). A PDF file may be part of a PDF book, or a single file.
You can use this property to control whether the drawing/model
limits are redefined or the last saved drawing limits are used.
Select either of the following from the list in the Value
field:
- Yes - Limits will be redefined.
- No - New limits are not redefined. Default value for PDF
files.
- Show hidden layers - You can use this property, when you
are publishing a 2D drawing and you have defined the visible layers
in the drawing by using the Layer set property. The layer
group may include hidden layers, which are not shown on the screen
or in the print by default. When you set the Show hidden
layers value to 1, also the hidden layers of the
selected layer group are visible in the PDF publication.
- Circles as lines - Sets whether circles are to be
printed as lines or circles.
Publishing to a PDF Book
In addition, you can select following properties for a PDF
book:
- Title - Type a title for the PDF book. The title will be
displayed in the PDF file's table of contents.
- Sheet - The selection list is compounded of the
alternatives defined in the system settings. In addition, you can
select the alternative OWN. If you select OWN, the sheet is
determined according to an application development program as
before. The selected sheet only affects the size of the sheet, the
selection "landscape" or "portrait" is not significant here.
- Sheet or. - Select AUTO (default), LANDSCAPE or PORTRAIT
from the list.
- Autorotate - Select 1 (default) or 0 from the list. When
you select 1, the drawing will be rotated to fit the sheet, if
necessary.
- Scale - Select Scale from sheet (the drawing will
be scaled according to the sheet) or Scale from drawing (the
drawing is not scaled according to the sheet) from the list.
Publishing to a DWG File
When you publish a drawing to the DWG file format, you can
select the following properties for a document:
Publishing to a Folder
When you publish a document into a folder, you can select the
following property for it:
- Destination path - When you publish a document set to a
folder, you can select a different publishing destination for
individual documents. Enter the folder path, including the drive
symbol in the text field of the Value column.
Publishing to the DesignStream System
When you publish a document to the Design Stream system, you can
select the following properties for it:
- Classification - Double-click a field in the
Value column and select a classification in the dialog box.
The classification affects the document's visibility in the
DesignStream system.
- DS-Name - You can define a name for the document. If a
DS-Name has not been defined, the document's name in the
DesignStream system will be the file name.
- Product - You can connect the document to a product in
the DesignStream system. Enter the product name in the text field
of the Value column.
- Preview image - You can define this property when
publishing an image file (jpeg, png, tiff) of a 3D model to the
DesignStream system. When this property has a Yes value, the
image file will be published in the DesignStream system as the
preview image of the house model.
Publishing to a Printer
When you publish a document to a printer, you can select the
following properties for it:
- Line width setup file - You can define pen colors for a
PDF file or when publishing a document on a printer. The pen colors
are defined in a line width setup file which is read from the
../custom/fonts folder. The line width setup file has a .lset
extension. Select the name of the line width setup file to be used
from the list in the Value column, for example
Color.lset.
- Printer - Select the printing settings in the Printing
dialog box.
Print
Settings
- Automatic printer - The program will automatically
choose a suitably sized sheet and the printer. Implementing this
function requires customer fitting.
Publisher