Architects need / wants good quality image - 3D View

[Vojtech Slavik]

Hi, I can't describe how important it is for architects to get GOOD and FAST images/previews or illustrations without using rendering software/exporting to another software.

- I wish to have possibility to save 3D view in Good quality (300DPI) for 4k Monitor 

- I don't wanna have this image resolution on 2022. 

- I'm doing on daily base so many alternatives and so many changes and I need to show without rendering or exporting to another software

- I think everyone will be so happy for this option. 👍

● Right now I have to do screenshot from 3D view and put in drawings layout because quality is much better to take a screenshot from 3D View ( This is a real pain to do all the time ! ) And do it again and again with any new change.

What is this quality ? I can  see how bad is raster of this image 😞  

[Vojtech Slavik]

Barry this is render. How I wrote I don't wanna render every 3D View.

- I have 10-20 alternatives and I moving windows, balconies and other object.
- I want/wish it just publish in 3D view with good quality at least what I can see on my screen or better.
export 3D view on layout change quality of imagy so bad 😕

[Vojtech Slavik]

Size of pepper is not relevant for this case. I'm not printing it.
I'm showing this alternatives on screen / teams meeting etc. / PDF. 

I'm using layout for presentation and for sending to my client. They just want to see or zoom on 3D perspektiv.

[Ransom Ratcliff]

Last month I posted on how we could get 9600 x7200 resolution from the OpenGL 3D live window on Mac in AC24 but lost that ability in AC25.

https://community.Graphisoft.com/t5/Wishes-forum/Increase-resolution-of-3D-views-produced-from-Axon-...

I also included a short video of how to do it so that the aspect ratio is not messed up and you don't have to keep undocking the 3D window.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4crjq6v3z3g9ug/High-Resolution%20Images%20from%20AC24.mp4?dl=0

Amazingly, the Views setup like this in AC24, retain their live updating and resolution after migration to AC25. So, the technology has not been totally eliminated under the hood of AC25.

BTW, having high resolution from the 3D window is another reason to update the default surfaces to brighter and more beautiful versions. Just be mindful of the index numbers so that the library, etc. continue to default to good surfaces. (There's about 30 years of Graphisoft tradition in the Archicad Library and surface indexes it references.)

[Vojtech Slavik]

Thank you. I will look at it trough Camera. I tried it just for 3D view (save) and it doesn't work on Mac. I extended size of window and saved it but when I dock the window back the size od 3D view changed to back. It's mean I couldn't save this size for Drawings.

- I'll let you know is this work.

Anyway my wish is same please let us set this quality of image somehow easier/user friendly.

[Vojtech Slavik]

Hi Ransom Ratcliff . For me it doesn't work 😕 the settings do nothing

I have Archicad 25 - 4013 SWE FULL

Here is video : 

[Ransom Ratcliff]

Hi Vojtech, sorry if I misunderstand.

But you say, "I have Archicad 25 - 4013 SWE FULL" and I explained in both posts that it worked in Archicad 24 but was disabled in Archicad 25.

Sorry, I could not tell from your video if you are testing AC24 or 25.

But I strongly agree with the "wish" that high resolution images should be enabled in Archicad. It has been a wish for a long time. It became really obvious when users got Retina screens or 4k screens on Windows, and they say the saved images or placed drawings dumb down the resolution by 50% from what we all could see on screen! Archicad was being so ridiculous that we could take a screenshot of what we could see and save it at the native resolution as an external PNG file, and then use that to at least get the resolution we could see on a large monitor!

And then it became an undocumented feature of AC24 that we could get even higher resolution on a View and place it as a drawing on a layout, than we could see on any monitor, if we used a camera view. Even better, we could do it without special video cards and it worked on Mac and Windows 10.

Then Graphisoft took it away again in AC25. So, my point was that we are asking for a very reasonable wish that should be easy to grant and a benefit to most users if they just knew about it. Indeed, if this technology were enabled again, the default DPI should be set to 240 or 300, instead of the ancient Mac Classic 72 DPI.

Easy, Live-updating, High-resolution views that do not require 3rd party tools like TM, would be a great feature for typical workflows in our industry. And we are so close to having it. There is a place for Rendering, but it is no substitute.

[Vojtech Slavik]

Thank you, I agree. Sorry for my video I linked corectli but I ccannost see it .

Anyway it's not important anymore https://youtu.be/wcqprXDmit4 

Yes, I wish to fulfill our wish

[James B]

Hi All,

We are actively working on improving this workflow (resolution of 3d views on layouts) and anticipate a 2025 release (I say anticipate because during development we may discover hidden issues/challenges).

What we currently plan in this area:

• view settings to allow editing and storing the dpi, and display pixel and mm (working units) sizes (and linked together, so changing one, changes the other)
• drawing resolution will be linked to the resolution stored in the view > due to technical limitations we need to still handle this on the view side rather than the drawing side
• when editing the pixel/mm size in the view settings, the model will correctly re-zoom/centre to the size you specify (now it doesn't do that)
• ability to lock the proportions of the width/height

Due to these changes, we'll try to avoid any changes to existing placed views on layouts - we're still investigating this though.

As we clean up this workflow and UI, we're likely to remove the ability to see "dpcm" in the view settings, and the print size we display will be based your working units.

Thanks.

[James B]

Hi All.

Thanks for this wish and feedback, we are already working in this area to improve the workflow of placed 3d images on layouts, by being able to more easily control their resolution. This is already on our public roadmap here (https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Product-Roadmap/Set-Resolution-for-3D-Views/idi-p/632888).

Thanks for your continued contribution, and keep it coming.

Best regards,

James Badcock

Senior Product Manager