Hi all,

This is a bit more of a general question, but I'm at the end of a project and I am working to document my work in CAESAR II. Are there any ways to get better quality images of the colored images of the stress levels out of the system? Or any images for that matter - the quality of these is not very good (mainly output of node numbers) and I can't seem to find very many options to control the output.

Client is used to these types of outputs, and ISOGEN doesn't work for my drawings (bug submitted elsewhere), so that's not a good option for me.

Have you tried changing the font or color of the node numbers? You can do that from "Plot Properties".

Print to PDF, but specify a larger "paper" size. Edit to add: larger paper = higher resolution.

Then you may open the PDF in Acrobat Standard and export to image. You may note that the text will come out really tiny, however.

If you don't have Acrobat Standard, there are other options, free or otherwise. (Offhand, GIMP.org comes to mind.)

Similar problem, trying to export a view of the system with stress % colours as a jpg but the legend keeps plotting itself directly over the top of the model. Any advice on how to alter it's position?

Print to pdf on a larger "sheet" of paper will effectively shrink all legend and text components.

What I've been doing to get better resolution is simply zooming in and using print screen. I may zoom in to 1/4 of the model for example, take a screen shot, move to the next 1/4, take the screen shot again and so on until I'm done with all 4 sections. Each time after I print screen, I'd paste it to Paint.NET to crop and stitch them together. But you have to be careful and maintain the same amount of zoom, and the same model orientation when you move from one section to the next.

But I rarely ever need to do it, and I happen to be pretty good at using image editors so the amount of work involved doesn't really bother me.