Retaining a viewport render

[Steve Drury]

Hi All,

 

Bit of a sticky situation here.

 

Background:

Setting the shade plot settings to "Presentation" (Rendered) then plotting will take 10-30 minutes. The PC I'm using is not slow (2.8GHz, 2GB DDR 400, GeForce FX5900).

 

Issue:

In paper space - I want to render a viewport, then retain the render in the viewport until I manually change the visual style. Currently I'm rendering the viewport (double-clicking to get into mspace, then "rr" (render)) but then when the sheet is REGEN'd the objects in the previously rendered viewport change back to the previous visual style (e.g. conceptual or realistic).

 

Our old company draftsman locked rendered images into viewports, but now can't remember how he did it. However, I can guarantee you it is possible.

 

Any ideas?

[Cad64]

I've never heard of such a thing. Once you Regen, the view is refreshed and you're going to lose your rendered image.

 

Why don't you just render to Window instead of Viewport?

[Steve Drury]

I'm rending to a VP and not a window because as an end-result I want to get the renders onto a template to present the drawing - not present them as image files...

 

It does make sense that a Regen clears the render, but the other drawings rendered image is definately not being refreshed.

[PS_Port]

I agree with Cad64 never heard of that one.. VP retaining a rendered image..

 

You could render out to a file then import that image back in,

you will have to bundle the image with the drawing if you pass it on though?

 

Describe the other drawings that the image is sticking there?

 

Macquarie park, that's Sydney right ?

[papagyi]

You will render with render window,you can see again as you like how many times you were render until your dwg close.

[Steve Drury]

See the attachment for an example.

 

You can regen until your fingers drop off and that rendered image wont change. If you start to think "maybe it's just 'Realistic'", enter the viewport and change the Visual Style to "Realistic" and see the isolines appear.

 

Just a thought... Is there a way to create a custom Visual Style that would include lighting and shading, while excluding isolines?

 

 

PS_Port:

Yeah, it's Sydney. It's a fancy name for North Ryde.

 

The other drawings are definately renders stuck in a viewport.

Example.dwg

[Steve Drury]

Just a thought... Is there a way to create a custom Visual Style that would include lighting and shading, while excluding isolines?

 

Just to answer my own question - Yes, Yes there is.

 

And that is the solution! They weren't quite renders, just tweaked visual styles

 

Thank's everyone for your help!