Ortho exports to "scale"

snowyweston · Mar 1st 2020

until now, to ask about "scale" for Enscape would have been a perverse notion - but now that we have orthogonal views in 2.7 (YAY!) the immediate follow-on* is...

To save us all eyeballing pixels-to-pixels when sizing-up and overlay'ing annotatative outputs from other sources (read hidden line views in Revit, text objects in InDesign, etc) - might there be some way to set some kind of "scale" to (ortho) render outputs, so that - for example we might accurately know 1:1 "pixel-to-X" - where x is a real world measure?

*okay, maybe second after transparent/alpha background exports

Gadget · Mar 2nd 2020

(Similar requests:

Annotations in standalone VR walkthrough

"Construction mode" walk-through)

snowyweston · Mar 2nd 2020

"similar" might be a stretch! If I'm reading your links correct, your wants remain in Enscape (?) where mine relate more to how we worki the exported image file...

Gadget · Mar 2nd 2020

Ah - yea, mine was/is more of a "as you are presenting" rather than an overlay on an exported image.

I suppose if Enscape recognised two dimensional lines (*) and text objects then it should be able to show dimension lines - just a matter of turning them on/off. (I suppose that this could also be related to the new BIM features too.)

(* as has been requested recently deitaling of render and older requests)

djoslin · Mar 5th 2020

+1 for ortho exports to scale

Sasha Schiavi · Mar 6th 2020

Scale would be great for export! +1

YITAOG · Oct 27th 2020

exporting in scale will be quite helpful

Bashkatov · Oct 29th 2020

+1

Tearch · Oct 29th 2020

+1

Paul Russam · Oct 29th 2020

I’ve no idea how you could produce an image (any image) ‘to scale’ but what you (as a user) could do is have a component of a known dim or even a simple ruler in your scene that you can subsequently use to scale your image in whatever page make up (indesign, SULayout etc) app you wish to use.

Tyler · Nov 1st 2020

One Idea would be to have the ability to set the exported images "paper size" (I.E. Arch D or tabloid) and then set the scale off of that. It would make more sense to use this specifically in the orthographic mode to produce plans or sections. Adding this would save a lot of time on the back-end of having to go into Photoshop and scale the image there. Paul, your solution does work, this would just be a time saver instead of doing your method. It would also be cool to have a options to "erase the background" when rendering so the image appears to act as a png, vs again going into Photoshop and erasing the background with the material map.

russoo · Nov 1st 2020

+1

YITAOG · Nov 5th 2020

That would be extremely helpful

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