Snapshots plugin prototype in the latest WIP

[gustojunk (Gustavo Fontana)]

hi @lars, this is exciting! I’m glad you guys are tackling this one.

in case you haven’t seen it I talked about what’s needed here:

Export Selected Layout to Illustrator

Hi all, Let’s talk layouts. I’ve done quite a few tests of Rhino Layout < > Illustrator and shared with @pascal. Layout is an area where it would be great to see some more ambitious workflow and export improvements. The low hanging fruit is creating a multi-page PDF export of all your layout pages with layer support (PDF supports layers and other illustrator capabilities). The advantage of adding full illustrator editability to PDFs is that you can also open those multi-page PDFs in Indesign…

• What I had listed at the time was:

  Views
  Material assignments
  Layer visibility
  Object visibility
  Curve Shutlining on/off (important for design variations)
  Named position
  Active clipping planes/Section views
  Active foreground/background images
  Grasshopper configuration states

  …I would also add:
  displaymode
  and more importantly two challenges about displaymode:

  1. _SetObjectDisplayMode state of objects
  2. overrides of visibility in the display panel (like curves of/off, show wires, transparency, etc)

• In terms of management I want to be able to reorder them manually and duplicate them. If I rename ‘snapshot 01’ to ‘coolview1’ shouldn’t the named views/named position/layer state generated at saving ‘snapshot 01’ be also renamed to ‘coolview1’ ?

• Also a playback button to go from previews to next would be nice. Especially for presentations. even an autoplay with a timer. Can you make smooth transitions between them?

• Can you load a snapshot in Layout view and maintain it persistent in a layout viewport.

• Last thing: can you export snapshots as screenshots or files (like Step/STLs)

OK, I better stop this should be enough work for a few days

G