is it anyway Rhino could be able to render just lines?

every time I render lines are actually "pipes" in an extremely small radius, which cause my computer very slow, almost dead.

if Rhino could not render just lines, or polylines, is there any better way to render those "line drawings?"

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Permalink Reply by to] on March 4, 2010 at 1:14am

hi jim
it depends on your renderer....one thing that helps to increase the performance is to convert the pipe to meshes because they are much lighter
another way it depends on your render engine is to use that plugin http://wiki.mcneel.com/labs/curvepiping

Permalink Reply by Jachym Pesek on March 4, 2010 at 1:36am

A second way is to use Technical drawing pluging. Thats without render metodh, only simple print.
http://wiki.mcneel.com/labs/techdraw

Permalink Reply by taz on March 4, 2010 at 12:19pm

Second that... If you print JPG files from a rendered viewport you can control if curves are shown, or surface edges, or isocurves, etc. and their colors.

The result is kind of a "sketchy" look, but it can get you pretty far.

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on March 4, 2010 at 1:47am

Also, Make2D works a treat at times...or printing to PDF...

Permalink Reply by jonathan doe on March 4, 2010 at 3:45am

from menu, file->export to .ai! works like a charm and it doesn't slow down your pc in any way.

Permalink Reply by LML on March 4, 2010 at 3:43pm

I've had problems w/ illustrator bogging down using this method when there are a lot of curves--seems to break up into many segments rather than keeping single beziers

Permalink Reply by Ilya Bourim on September 26, 2013 at 3:02am

Rebuild your lines to get the number of points on the curves down before going to AI, you can also separate things on layers and export one part at the time. also make 2D doesn't work on meshes, so make sure you convert them to poly surfaces before.

Permalink Reply by Matthew Hickey on May 4, 2015 at 10:06pm

I believe in the help under export to AI it describes the specifics of exporting to AI, such as curves must be in degree 3 or >3. At degree 2 it's not as accurate

Permalink Reply by gemma ggv on July 28, 2017 at 8:32am

What you can do is create a TOON material with 100% transparency (that's what I do when I don't have time to export diagrams to .ai).

Do the material 100% transparent material, and then Create a new one. Instead of choosing "standard" choose "toon" and the material created before as a base material. You can change the thickness of the line in there.

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