Hi Jarek, have you experienced to capture the specific area in grasshopper? now I have hundreds of views in different ratio to capture.
Hi, sorry - no, I don’t have much experience with GH canvas captures.
I know this is an old one to revive, but its super useful little tool, but I’m running into some difficulty.
No matter the resolution I give, images come out 1997 x 1206. I’ve tested mutliple files and display modes.
Any idea what might be the cause of this?
This plugin was written before ViewCaptureToFile command had some options added to it.
So in order to make the resolution settings work, you may need to check if the ViewCaptureToFile command options are set to: Scale=1, LockAspectRatio=No.
Please try running command-line version of the command:
_-ViewCaptureToFile (with “-” before command) and check out these options. My guess at least one of them if your case gets in the way of 2000x2000 image size…
hth,
–jarek
Hi Jarek, thanks for the speedy reply
-ViewCaptureToFile options were set to Scale=1, LockAspectRatio=No
If I set the resolution in -ViewCaptureToFile to the desired amount, then multiviewcapture outputs the resolution I want. So to be clear, the ViewCaptureToFile resolution setting overrides the setting in multiviewcapture. A bit buggy but it at least works 
Do you have the same issue?
MultiViewCapture.rhp (87 KB)
Try this version, I might have updated it since the last post. It should have built-in scale factor and I don’t have any problems with the resolution.
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This version doesn’t have the previous problem mentioned!
Thanks for making such a useful plugin!
You sir are a legend!
Has anyone gotten this working on Rhino 8 on Mac?
Sorry, this is Windows-only tool.
Hi Jarek,
Wondering if this plugin can be used to print to scale? The view’s I’ve saved have different scale factors, but when I print; I want them to be at one scale. Im not sure if this plugin works like this. Perhaps a batch saved views to scaled print?
Best,
Jeremy
Hi @jdelavaulx , I don’t think so, but I am not entirely sure what you are asking here.
How would you go about doing this manually, without a plugin?
This plugin works with viewcaptures (not layouts).
Maybe you can provide some more details.
Best,
–jarek
Hi Jarek,
So I save parallel named views which then I Print using the print command. In that print popup interface, you can set the scale of the print output. This is very important for me doing landscape/architecture.
With the batch capture of named views, it doesn’t give a set print scale; and the scale depends purely on the view zoom; not the print scale.
Best,
Jeremy
Hi Jeremy,
Why not using Layouts for that? You can set exact scale etc. in each of them and then print all of them at once using Print dialog, with all the customizations.
This plugin does only work with ViewCaptures. It probably would not be hard to add option to Print instead, but there are myriads of settings for Print command that would make it difficult to make it flexible in the plugin.
Best,
–jarek
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