JMR Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Hi all, A question about rendering please. Test renders that are done while working, create a handy chronological document about the design development. When I render some view, is it saved automatically somewhere, from where it could be retrieved later? 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Would be nice. I bought a comfortable Screenshot App for Mac and got used to save these from time to time, as a workaround for VW. (Didn't find a similar App for Windows and Linux so far though) Quote Link to comment
jbtroost Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 10 minutes ago, zoomer said: I bought a comfortable Screenshot App for Mac and got used to save these from time to time Cmd+shift+4 would have saved you some money… Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 (edited) The priority is on Comfort. - I have a Menu Bar Entry - I can set Project Templates with individual : a) File Type b) File Path c) Auto Naming with pre- and suffixes (Time, Date, File Size, Resolution) d) Marquee/Window/Screen/Timer/ ... option e) Auto Open in Preview, or not f) Auto Add to Clipboard, or not g) Assign Shortcut As I set it up for current Project and general usage for me it works by - Click to open from Menu Bar - Click to choose Project Preset - Click Drag Marquee Bing Bang Boom and I have a Screenshot in proper format and naming in my Project's Image Folder. That Mac App is called Screenshot Plus. (Alternatives for Windows and Linux, being able to do a)-d) are very welcome) Edited April 26, 2019 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
RGyori Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Alas Screenshot Plus is not available in the US App Store. Go figure. 😢 1 Quote Link to comment
Bill-CollaborativeMT Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 RGyori, My iMac has the same specs as yours. I just installed Snagit for screen capture. It is $49 but is totally worth it. It captures high-res images and videos right from a crop on the 27" screen, especially when you have all the OpenGL settings cranked up. No need for presentation mode with the crop. Then you can quickly crop, adjust, annotate, etc., and email out right from Snagit. 1 Quote Link to comment
RGyori Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 @CollaborativeMT thanks for the reference! I will look into Snagit and give it try. Quote Link to comment
Bill-CollaborativeMT Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 It saves screen captures as a proprietary .snagitproj file which you can then export at Retina image size in several formats. Quote Link to comment
Bill-CollaborativeMT Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I am finding that I am using Snagit more and more. Instead of slowly scrolling through a giant pdf set in Bluebeam Studio, I grab a screen shot. Snagit stores the image in a library sorted by application, date/time, image, type. Pretty cool. 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, CollaborativeMT said: Instead of slowly scrolling through a giant pdf set in Bluebeam Studio, I grab a screen sho Great idea ! BTW I export Images from PDFs, to have faster Underlays for modeling. Edited April 26, 2019 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
JMR Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 As to Windows users, it seems Windows 10 snipping tool is being updated, the new version automatically gives a chronological file name and remembers the last directory . Still, automatic saving by the core VW program, to some subdir by project would be great...Maxwell has this feature and it's very handy. 1 Quote Link to comment
herbieherb Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) Here is a script that exports images directly and lossless. Take the script at the bottom of the thread. The pictures get a date stamp automatically. With it you can easily create a chronology of renderings. However, you have to ungroup a copy of the viewport to get an image before running the script. export image file Edited April 29, 2019 by herbieherb Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Luis M Ruiz Posted April 29, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 29, 2019 I typically keep a project folder dedicated for renderings, just to keep a record. Typically a screenshot is enough. Here is a sample of the before, during and after. 3 Quote Link to comment
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