Hello everyone.
Is there any way of creating a script to make 5 different perspective screen shots. What I mean is, I have 1 model created in grasshopper, then I click screen capture and the script automatically takes a screen shot of the left, right, top, bottom and front view to 5 different .jpg images on desktop.
Just asking because I manually do this all the time, the same shots of my models and it would be cool to do this with a simple script.
Any help would be super cool.
Thank you.
Ian 
First, you should set 5 views in Rhino.Then run C# script in GH.
List < String > strs = new List<String>{"Top","Bottom","Left","Right","Front"};
for (int i = 0;i < strs.Count;i++)
{
var view = doc.Views.Find(strs[i], false);
var view_capture = new ViewCapture
{
// Width = view.ActiveViewport.Size.Width,
// Height = view.ActiveViewport.Size.Height,
Width = 1600,
Height = 1200,
ScaleScreenItems = false,
DrawAxes = false,
DrawGrid = false,
DrawGridAxes = false,
TransparentBackground = true
};
var bitmap = view_capture.CaptureToBitmap(view);
if (null != bitmap)
{
var path = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);
var filename = Path.Combine(path, strs[i] + ".Png");
bitmap.Save(filename, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
}
}
viewcapture.gh (2.2 KB)
Thank you so much ! Thats a real help
I hope I can ask one silly question. When I create the saved views in Rhino, I have typed the same names into your code. Im just not sure what buttons I need at the end to activate this and save the 5 .png files to the desktop.
Would you mind showing me how to finish this ?
Thank you.
Ian
the better solution is to add a boolean input.
viewcapture.gh (5.0 KB)
