Printing in Colour, all of it in colour

Attached is the schematic file. I have modified the library so that the background to the parts is taken out allowing the text to show. Well the schematic would have been attached but this mornonic non forum won't allow file for mats from the software it claims to support. What a joke!

Simon Turner wrote:

 

Well the schematic would have been attached but this mornonic non forum won't allow file for mats from the software it claims to support. What a joke!

Really? You couldn't just zip it and post it? Rather than help people help you you chose to have a rant instead?

This forum supports an entire community, not just Circuit Studio and is actually pretty good. Yeah it can be a little clunky in places but it generally works.

I hadn't thought of that and when the attach a document  tool gives you a sense of security as it lists a small list of files that you can't attach that don't include the format you want to attach then find it's actually forbidden even though it's native to the software this whole "forum" is about. My pop is at element14 and the poor excuse for a platform this is not the users, I only post here in the hope element14 see the bugs that need fixing otherwise I'd post in more sensible places like the EEVblog. There are established forum softwares out there for a reason, but no people like farnell or whatever they call themselves today want to make sure their corporate image is so ingrained that we get this poor excuse for a forum platform that they dreamt up themselves.

The sch file is blank...

Hi Simon,

Now you've posted the zipped version of your schematic, hopefully somebody will be able to help you.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

I hadn't thought of that and when the attach a document tool gives you a sense of security as it lists a small list of files that you can't attach that don't include the format you want to attach then find it's actually forbidden even though it's native to the software this whole "forum" is about.

This forum isn't all about Circuit Studio, it covers a vast array of topics of which CS is just a tiny part. If they listed every single file type they don't support it would be an exceedingly long list and nobody would bother reading it.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

My pop is at element14 and the poor excuse for a platform this is not the users, I only post here in the hope element14 see the bugs that need fixing otherwise I'd post in more sensible places like the EEVblog.

My point is, having a rant like you did won't make things any better, and doesn't show you in a good light or encourage people to want to listen to your viewpoint or try to help you. Criticism is fine, just do it in a way that doesn't make you look bad. I agree EEVBlog is a good forum, and is a good advert for Dave and his YouTube blogger business but I can see why a large corporation would want something that looked more modern. I'm not convinced it would be easy to extend the forum software they use there to cover all the features this forum supports and give the look and feel they want for their corporate image and I suspect the developer cost in maintaining it would end up being huge.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

There are established forum softwares out there for a reason, but no people like farnell or whatever they call themselves today want to make sure their corporate image is so ingrained that we get this poor excuse for a forum platform that they dreamt up themselves.

Element14 didn't dream up this forum, they bought an off the shelf solution: https://www.jivesoftware.com/products/jive-x/

Best Regards,

Rachael

could it be because you don't have the library ?

Right so now we have two threads going in one thread because apparently this is the modern way to do instead of just quoting someone. If they actually paid money for this site design then they made a big mistake, surely it has elements specifically integrated into it for them. Other big corporations have used standard forum software and there are plenty of off the shelf solutions out there for free that allow a forum as big or small as needed and can cover as many topics as needed. I have never found my way into this site without having to google for it and that is a fail right there.

Shouldn't be because Altium schematic and pcb docs are self contained, they take a copy of all used library symbols/footprints and embed them in the doc.

Shouldn't be because Altium schematic and pcb docs are self contained, they take a copy of all used library symbols/footprints and embed them in the doc.

Well I am afraid I have no idea.

Rummaging around I have found settings for a PDF export, but I cannot find any export tool anywhere. I want to export to pdf or some file format that I can bring into 3D CAD (like DXF). I have been trying to print to PDF so maybe the fault is with the PDF printer. If there is a native export to PDF or other technical format then problem, probably solved.

I have tried a different PDF printer and now the background comes out, so the problem is how the PDF printer handles the layers of CS schematic. But I still can't find any way of exporting to any useful format.

True the export options are limited, at the end of the day the Schematic entry is really a tool getting a netlist into the PCB editor.

However, while you can't export it into a vector format, you can actually copy and paste it into one... Yeah crazy isn't it.

So I use Adobe Illustrator, if I select all, copy then paste in Illustrator I have everything except the title box and border perfectly.  Maybe that'll work in you CAD package (doesn't seem to work in F360).  Don't know if that helps you or not.

Well technically speaking there are no export options for the schematic, all you can do is print and if you have a software printer you can use it to presumably strip the raw information and bang it into a new format. I'll have to try the copy and paste. Unfortunately I am in a situation where the company mostly works in 3D CAD and they want all of the design data in one file or at least I'd have to recreate the borders and everything in CS to look the same.

Yes indeed, a select all and a copy/paste into solid edge draft environment seems to work, although it is as an image, but that is fine for my purposes.