About Saving Figures to External File Formats
You can save a figure as an image file, a 3D file, or as a 2D illustration file. Save one figure at a time to an external format. To simultaneously save one or more figures in an illustration in one or more formats, use the Publish function. See
About Publishing for more information.
When you save a file as another format, the result contains the following data:
• Image— A raster image of the figure window. You can resize the image before you save it. If the figure includes a gnomon, you can hide it in the exported image file, unless the gnomon is locked in the Creo Illustrate Options dialog box. If the figure contains hotspots, such as annotations or symbols, you can export an image map (*.imap) file showing the coordinate locations of hotspots in the figure.
• 3D—3D parts in the figure in a 3D file format. Some 3D file formats let you save all loaded parts or only the visible or selected parts. Others let you include or exclude annotations and animations.
• 2D illustration—A 2D, HLR illustration of visible parts, annotations, and symbols in the figure. The 2D illustration is saved in HLR render mode regardless of the current render mode in Creo Illustrate. The saved HLR illustration can include thick/thin lines, inner edges, and surface borders. You can select the line conversion method and generate ellipse elements from elliptical paths.
You can also crop the 2D illustration to the Creo Illustrate figure window boundaries.