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[glkirk]

Can someone refresh my memory as to how to "Enhance" (for lack of better words) a shot, (maybe a pdf).
I was taught once but forgot.
Also, in attaching deck to a house, i get railings, even against the house. Seems there is a way to manipulate this, but I can't figure it out.
Thanks,
Gary

[Flowers232]

You will find some help here on decks, http://www.cadsoft.com/faqs.php

Mal.

[Doug.S]

Can someone refresh my memory as to how to "Enhance" (for lack of better words) a shot, (maybe a pdf).
I was taught once but forgot.

I'm assuming (dangerous) you mean enhancing the look of a rendered image, typically .jpg or .bmp.
First do your best to get a good render via camera position, lighting, and render settings. But if you still need to sharpen, darken/brighten, increase contrast, saturate colors, etc.    . . . the answer probably lies in using a photo imaging program such as Photoshop or anything similar (many free, some low cost) and "adjust" the image till it looks like you want it.

Hope that helps. If not, can you explain your desire in more detail?

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Gary,

I suspect the "enhance" you are referring to, the one most commonly used - especially with Basic renders, is to increase the Contrast. This slightly darkens the shadows and lightens the lighter areas, so appears to increase the sharpness and 3D effect. All photoediting programs have this tool.

Allan

[glkirk]

I think the word is "Rendering".
Does Envisioneer have this capability. Seems like we DL something from CUTE.
Are you saying that maybe we used the cute program?
Sure wish I remembered how we did it!

[Natalie]

There are two different things that you could be referring to here.

Rendering is done to "enhance" a 3 dimensional camera view with shadows, texture effects etc., creating a .bmp or .jpg image. You can find it when you are in a 3D camera under View-> Render 3D Realview.

Printing a PDF is what CutePDF could be used for. This is generating a PDF of your project, for example a working drawing that you would like to email to someone. If that is what you would like to do, you can download CutePDF at http://cutepdf.com/ and install it. Then a PDF printer will show up in your printer list. There are also other PDF printers available, it does not have to be CutePDF that you use.

[Doug.S]

All a pdf printer (like Cute PDF) does is convert the image generated and shown on your PC screen to a PDF file...it is usually better than a screen shot.  PDF = portable document file format.

The reason is that a screen shot relies on the screen resolution quality (often around 90-120 ppi/dpi); but a PDF printer is often set as 300 dpi or higher and produces a better looking image.

But a pdf is NOT a render. Rendered images are the best you can create from the program and can be made into a .pdf if needed, but that conversion will not make the render any better.

[glkirk]

Thank you all for all your help.

I am at a point where I can go to "view" and set the city/state/country and render the image. But I can't do anything from there except close it.
I know that the PDF link is in the printers.
How do I get this little render image window to the printer?PDF?

Thanks,
Gary

[FynrDzynr]

G'day Gary!
PROGRAMME SETTINGS - RENDERING - OUTPUT OPTIONS
Have you set it to render to file? If so, check the location that you've specified. iirc it defaults to the current working folder and filename is the same as the bld and you can specify either bmp or jpg.
hth
Merv

/later
should have mentioned that if you're generating more than one image eg from different cameras, you'll need to change the filename to avoid overwriting the first one.

[glkirk]

Thank you Merv,

I think this gives me the start that I need.

Hope you are having a G-Day

Gary

[Doug.S]

If you find the rendered file image (.bmp or .jpg) you can then view that image in a viewer (there are many; such as Irfanview or simply dbl-click the file and it should open in a viewer automatically in your PC; but may not, if not, contact us here again.)

Once the image is in view on the screen in a viewer, you can use a pdf printer from the viewing program to save the image as a .pdf file (in addition to the .jpg or .bmp file)....by using menu to "print" and use the pdf program "printer".  It does not really print on paper, it "prints" (or saves) to a file on your hard disk drive (or wherever you specify).

PDF is simply another method (file format) to store, share, and view the rendered image. Different than .jpg or .bmp.

If you wonder why use .pdf format; search www and it will explain about combining vector and pixel based images in one file, in a standard format, for ease of and practical use of combined images and text; while keeping very good quality in a reasonably small file size.