topic Re: How to save an image of a BIMx Gallery / Camera position in BIMx

How to save an image of a BIMx Gallery / Camera position?

Francois Swanepoel — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:58:52 GMT

Would anybody know of a way to save a Gallery view / any camera position out to an image file?
I had just assumed that it would be possible and now that I came to a point in a project I wanted to quickly take some snap shots from my BIMx model to publish in a document.
Much to my surprise I had to find it somehow not possible. I work on a Windows 7 machine and both the “Print-Screen” function and the cool “Snipping Tool” does not work and the clip board stays blank.

I am still hopeful to find a solution though. Any ideas?

Re: How to save an image of a BIMx Gallery / Camera position

Barry Kelly — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:58:14 GMT

I think F5 is the keyboard shortcut (on Windows anyway) to take a screen shot.
I think this just stores the image in the clipboard so you have to ALT-TAB out of BIMx to paste it elsewhere.
But I don't have a license for BIMx available at the moment to test.
Barry.

Re: How to save an image of a BIMx Gallery / Camera position

JaredBanks — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:11:07 GMT

F5 on a mac saves a screenshot to a non-obvious location; it goes to Documents/BIMx/Screenshots. The images are good, especially for e-mails and webpages, but not great. Nothing I’d print out at a large scale.

I presume on a PC it will save to a similar folder.

Re: How to save an image of a BIMx Gallery / Camera position

JaredBanks — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:12:34 GMT

Oh and I'm pretty sure this works from a BIMx file someone sends you, so you shouldn't need a license. I think.

If anyone wants to test it out, here's a link to a sample file I did recently showing off the latest limited navigation features of BIMx:

http://www.shoegnome.com/2012/10/02/limiting-navigation-in-bimx-finally-we-have-complete-control/

Re: How to save an image of a BIMx Gallery / Camera position

Barry Kelly — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:28:23 GMT

JaredBanks wrote:
F5 on a mac saves a screenshot to a non-obvious location; it goes to Documents/BIMx/Screenshots. The images are good, especially for e-mails and webpages, but not great. Nothing I’d print out at a large scale.

I presume on a PC it will save to a similar folder.

Yes same location on a PC.
The image quality is as good as you see it on the screen in BIMx.
But being now a still image as soon as you zoom in it will pixilate.
So make sure you get the exact shot you want in BIMx before you capture it.
Barry.

Re: How to save an image of a BIMx Gallery / Camera position

Katalin Takacs — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:49:49 GMT

Dear Francois,

I have added some information to the http://archicadwiki.com/BIMx site about the pre-recorded camera walk-through and camera position features.
I hope it helps to use these functions now.

Regards,

Re: How to save an image of a BIMx Gallery / Camera position

Francois Swanepoel — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:11:53 GMT

"JaredBanks" wrote:
F5 on a mac saves a screenshot to a non-obvious location; it goes to Documents/BIMx/Screenshots. The images are good, especially for e-mails and webpages, but not great. Nothing I’d print out at a large scale.

I presume on a PC it will save to a similar folder.

The exact path in Windows is "C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\BIMx\Screenshots" (where XXXXX is the name of the logged in user of the PC)

The BIMx Screenshots WORKS and are FOUND - problem solved
Thanks to everyone.