Wish: Export Selected with Named Views

[ShynnSup]

Hi,

I often need to export portions of models but still need some named views with it.

It would be great if we could set which named views to export together with the selected geometry.

[Mahdiyar]

I thought this might help:

How to export rhino camera view to another rhino file?

Hi Diana, You can do it from NamedView panel → Import Named Views. This will bring all the named views from the file you are importing from. The other way around is, you can select any single object in the file you want the views exported from and Export Selected to Rhino format. The file will remember all named views, that can be imported via the 1st method. For more advanced way of doing it with only specific views from a file, you can check out this script by @clement: hth, –jarek

[ShynnSup]

@How to export rhino camera view to another rhino file?

The other way around is, you can select any single object in the file you want the views exported from and Export Selected to Rhino format. The file will remember all named views

No, that is the issue.

Export selected does not export named views.

Check this:

File with named views:

Export selected the cube. (no views in the export selected file)

[Jarek]

@ShynnSup

Export selected does not export named views.

It used to work in Rhino 6, looks like since version 7 the named views are not exported along with the Export Selected Objects.
I liked it the old way by the way, not sure why this was removed.

@pascal, do you know why this was changed? (and can we have it back?)

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hi Jarek - I am guessing/trying-to-remember here, but as I recall, there was a good deal of unhappiness that we exported parts of the file, so to speak, that were not really the selected objects - I think we used to get all kinds of file level junk, that people did not want, included in the export (also Copy/Paste as I recall) and that was most often not a good thing.

-Pascal

[ShynnSup]

@pascal

there was a good deal of unhappiness that we exported parts of the file, so to speak, that were not really the selected objects

I think it would be best if there was a menu similar to how the exporter works on skp to ask for options about views, etc.

It is basic workflow to export views with geometry when working on a visualization team. Sometimes you need to split a single file in multiple scenes.

It is also basic workflow when creating diagrams of a model that all need to be saved/exported/rendered from same camera.

Sometimes I will be updating massing as well as working on the context on a main file, and we need to export some diagrams of only the massing from some fixed cameras.

Instead of having to save as or save a copy, share the heavy file, download the heavy file, open the heavy file and delete the context geometry that is not needed, I could just export massing with cameras.

I understand not everyone has same the needs/workflows but someone on Rhino team should know how people utilize their software, this is pretty basic workflow stuff in average architectural office at least.