Print Settings control from GH

Hello,

I would like to print multiple layouts from Rhino by sending the print commands as a macro from GH. According to that I have two questions:

1. How to change the Printer from the default AdobePDF to a JPG format?

2. How to I assign a file name?

The goal is to write one macro command in GH, send it to Rhino and get the images saved according to the setup described in the macro. That should work automatically without any further manual steps. Just activating the toggle to send the command to Rhino should be the only task to get the images.

Does anybody knows how to achieve this?

Thanks,

Julia

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Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on February 17, 2017 at 2:25pm

Will you be doing this repeatedly as your geometry or camera view changes? Is there a reason you wouldn't wan't to animate a slider to save images of your viewport?

Permalink Reply by Julia Tschet on February 17, 2017 at 4:37pm

The reason why I want to use the print option of Rhino is because it offers to save multiple layouts (different views of the model) at once. In my algorithm the geometry changes and for each change i need to have four different images of the model from different angles. But i cannot apply any manual steps because the algorithm will run as a loop.
But if there is another possibility to achieve that I would be very happy to hear about it!

Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on February 21, 2017 at 6:41pm

If your geometry is being changed by a single slider (or if you can make it so your changes are driven by one slider, which is usually possible), then you could right click on the slider and choose animate. You can output your images as whatever file type you want. You can only pick one viewport, but you could just do this 4 times.

Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on February 22, 2017 at 3:06pm

Also, I haven't tried this but you could look into this component:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/batch-view-capture

Permalink Reply by Julia Tschet on February 24, 2017 at 3:57pm

Thanks a lot Brian!!

This component works and I used it for developing my own version of it.

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