Raster output

Brent Blackwelder

 AutoCad has a non-windows raster output driver from which you can generate a variety of output files BMP, JPG etc. In Acad, I've created a pc3 file that produces a small 150x150 pixel JPG of a building floor plate that is used as a thumbnail view in a website. I cannot seem to find an equivalent raster driver for BricsCad. I've tried PDFCreator, Zan Image Printer and other windows drivers that do create a jpg file but I don't have control over the output size - I need the ability to specifically state the pixel size of the output so it can generate the exact size used by the website. Any suggestions or actual experience generating jpg files of various size would be much appreciated? Thanks

Jason Bourhill

PDFCreator can be used to generate 150 x 150 jpg. See 150_model images attached. To do this I:

• Created a PDFCreator printer that had the JPEG profile set as default.
• In PDFCreator I set the JPEG output resolution to 150dpi.
• In BricsCAD go to print and select this printer, then pick the Edit plotter configuration button.
• go to custom properties, then select custom paper size. I set this as 1" x 1".
• Save my settings as a .PC3 for future use.
  

An alternative may be to use _EXPORT, and export the drawing out in Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG) format. You can set the size to 150 x 150 in _SETTINGS. As SVG is vector based the image will remain sharp no matter the size. However you can't use _PUBLISH to batch process.

Regards,

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts

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Joe Dunfee

 The render command allows you to send the results to a window at a specified resolution.  I have not tried it with non-shaded views, but I imagine it would work.

-Joe

Brent Blackwelder

Thanks for the detailed response. Much appreciated.

@Jason Bourhill:

PDFCreator can be used to generate 150 x 150 jpg. See 150_model images attached. To do this I:

• Created a PDFCreator printer that had the JPEG profile set as default.
• In PDFCreator I set the JPEG output resolution to 150dpi.
• In BricsCAD go to print and select this printer, then pick the Edit plotter configuration button.
• go to custom properties, then select custom paper size. I set this as 1" x 1".
• Save my settings as a .PC3 for future use.
  

An alternative may be to use _EXPORT, and export the drawing out in Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG) format. You can set the size to 150 x 150 in _SETTINGS. As SVG is vector based the image will remain sharp no matter the size. However you can't use _PUBLISH to batch process.

Regards,

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts

Jim Canale

I suppose you can also do a screen shot and scale or crop the output in an application like IrfanView.   Or am I oversimplifying this?