Save view-port in local path in grasshopper using a different display mode

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Dear Rhino Community,

I am trying to assist a friend with this request, their goal is to save their view-port in their local path in grasshopper, using a different display mode. For example, when they are working on ‘perspective’ mode with ‘Rendered’ display mode, they want to save current ‘perspective’ with ‘my_personal_display’ display mode. Main point is to maintain ‘Rendered’ display mode in current rhino perspective but to save current ‘perspective’ view with ‘my_personal_display’ display mode.

They looked over rhinocommon api but couldn’t find a helpful method. It only allows them to change current active viewport. For example, when they run rs.ViewDisplayMode(‘Perspective’, ‘my_personal_display’), it automatically changes their current viewport.

I hope that I can assist them from the advice I receive on this website. They are not on the Rhino forum so I am doing this a a favor for them, and myself for that matter.

Best Regards,
Michael Wickerson

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Is this not the same as Question regarding rs.ViewDisplayMode and Is it possible to save rendered viewport image when current viewport is shaded? ?

Anyway, the way to go about this is to change the active viewport mode to what they want, capture it, then change back to whatever the display mode was.

Here a Python example to capture the active view

And to get a specific DisplayMode you can use

display_mode = Rhino.Display.DisplayModeDescription.FindByName("Wireframe")

and then set the view to use that with something along the lines of:

view = sc.doc.Views.ActiveView
view.ActiveViewport.DisplayMode = display_mode
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Thank you very much, I will pass on this wonderful and clear information. Mike