Exporting a View as an Image You can export the active view to various programs and data types.

For more information, see:

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"Exporting a View to a CGM File," page 2-68

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"Exporting a View to an Image File," page 2-70

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"Exporting a 3D Viewer Image to a VRML File," page 2-71

2.11.1 Exporting a View to a CGM File

You can export the displayed view to a CGM file, and then you can send the CGM file that you create to a plotter for printing.

To export a 3D Viewer image to a CGM file

1 Select File > Export > View > CGM from 3D Viewer to open the Print Window to a CGM File dialog box.

2 In the Camera box, enter the name of the view that you want to export. The view name appears on the title bar for the view window. (Or, if the view is maximized, the view name appears on the title bar of the SKUA or GOCAD window). 3 In the CGM file box, enter the path and file name of the file to which you are

exporting the object. The converter either creates a new file, or overwrites an existing one.

4 To define the plot dimension, click one of these options:

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Use height. If you select this option, you need to specify a height. This number corresponds to the plot height in centimeters.

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Use scale. If you select this option, you need to define a scale factor. This number, which is in real world units, corresponds to one plot centimeter. 5 Do one of the following steps:

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If you clicked Use height, type a numeric value in the Height cm box to specify the height number.

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If you clicked Use scale, type a numeric value in the Scale box to define the scale factor.

6 To adjust the DPI (dots per inch) setting, type a numeric value in the Dots per inch box.

Note Dots per inch (DPI) is a measure of printing resolution, in particular the number of

individual dots of ink a printer or toner can produce within a linear one-inch space. The converter only uses this number when a raster interpolation is required.

7 In the CGM encoding box, select one of these options to determine how the converter encodes the exported CGM file:

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binary

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clear text

2.11.2 Exporting a View to an Image File

You can export the display in a 3D, 2D, or plot view to an image file. Supported file formats include:

The command takes a screen capture of the image at the same size and scale as it appears on screen. Any dialog boxes obscuring the view are also captured. Before you carry out the command, you should clear the view of any overlapping windows.

To export a view to

an image file 1 With the view open and set up how you want it to appear in the image, do one of the following to open the Snapshot dialog box:

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Select File > Export > View > Snapshot.

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From the 3D Viewer, on the 3D Viewer toolbar, click Save Snapshot As .

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From a 2D view or plot view, on the File toolbar, click Snapshot .

2 In the View box or Camera box (as applicable), enter the name of the view that you want to export.

The view name appears on the title bar for the view window. (Or, if the view is maximized, the view name appears on the title bar of the SKUA or GOCAD window). 3 Specify where you want to save the file by doing one of the following:

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Click Save in project. Save the image file in the project folder (*.prj). With this option, the image will be available for review in the Images browser, on the Results tab.

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Click External file, and then in the Snapshot file box, enter the path and file name where you want to save the image.

With this option, the command either creates a file or overwrites an existing one. 4 In the User comment box, type any text that you want to associate with the image.

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BMP

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ICO

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JPEG

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JPG

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PNG

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PPM

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TIF

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TIFF

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If you save the image in the project, this text appears below the image in the Images browser.

5 In the Image format box, select the file format that you want to use to save the image.

6 If you want to specify the size of the image, select the Resize snapshot check box, and then type numeric values (in pixels) in the Width and Height boxes. (In the 3D Viewer, the maximum is 2000 by 2000 pixels.)

If cleared, the command takes a screen capture of the view at the same size and scale as it appears on screen.

Note If you are working with a remote connection with limited graphics support or with an

early version of OpenGL, such as OpenGL 1.1, resizing is not supported.

You can find the new image file by using a file management program to browse to the folder you specified. And, if you saved the file to the project folder, you can also view the file by using the Images browser on the Results tab (for more information, see Part IV: Foundation Modeling, "Reviewing and Comparing Images" on page 17-14).

2.11.3 Exporting a 3D Viewer Image to a VRML File

You can export the contents of the 3D Viewer to a single VRML1 _{2.0 file.}

VRML export limitations

The converter does not support 2D and 3D textures. All Voxet sections and 2D images appear as white in the VRML file.

The Predefine Viewpoint function may not work in some VRML viewers. To export a

3D Viewer image to a VRML file

1 Select File > Export > Camera > VRML to open the Print Window to VRML dialog box.

2 In the Camera box, enter the name of the view that you want to export. The view name appears on the title bar for the view window. (Or, if the view is maximized, the view name appears on the title bar of the SKUA or GOCAD window). 1. For information about VRML format, visit the Web 3D Consortium at www.web3d.org/x3d/vrml.

3 In the VRML file box, enter the path name of the file to which you are exporting the object. The command will either create a new file or overwrite an existing one. 4 To save data (such as geometry and shading) from the hidden parts of objects, select

the Add back face information check box. Notes

• Select this option to overcome the effects of backface culling that occur with some VRML viewers.

• If you select back face culling (not selecting and drawing what is not in front of the 3D view), any object or part of an object (such as triangles, nodes, or other objects) that face away from your point of view is eliminated.

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2.12 Exporting an SGrid and Data to an Isatis

In document SCUA-GOCAD Import-Export.pdf (Page 180-185)