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Crop Rebar Shape Images

miguel.gutierrezD74CZ — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 23:08:05 GMT

Hi community, the FitToPage enumerate export images using to much white space. Is there any workaround to zoom a little bit more the image just like this:

so then Images can have a better visualization of those image in the rebar schedule.

string desktopPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop); ImageExportOptions img = new ImageExportOptions(); img.PixelSize = 1000; img.ImageResolution = ImageResolution.DPI_600; img.SetViewsAndSheets(new List<ElementId>{viewDetail.Id}); img.ExportRange=ExportRange.SetOfViews; img.ZoomType = ZoomFitType.FitToPage; img.FitDirection = FitDirectionType.Vertical; img.HLRandWFViewsFileType=ImageFileType.PNG; img.FilePath = Path.Combine(desktopPath,"image1"); img.ShadowViewsFileType = ImageFileType.PNG; detailComponent.ExportImage(img); #endregion

any recommendations tot the image name appropriately as I aimed t seo named the image as "image1" but it turns out to be "image1 - Floor Plan Ref Level"

Cheers

Re: Crop Rebar Shape Images

Organon — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:14:59 GMT

@miguel.gutierrezD74CZ,

Hi,

What type of view are you using? I did something similar using a drafting view, and the zoom to fit works fine.

Regards,

Re: Crop Rebar Shape Images

miguel.gutierrezD74CZ — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:32:31 GMT

The rebar shape reinforcement is generated on a detail component family so the data is visualized on a ref level plan

Re: Crop Rebar Shape Images

Organon — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 21:59:30 GMT

But is it strictly necessary to do it in a plan view?

Regards,

Re: Crop Rebar Shape Images

miguel.gutierrezD74CZ — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:22:32 GMT

Is not a must but It will ease the computation. I give it a try placing them on drafting view, however the zoom to fit option doesn't help that much as there is no way to control the height.

Re: Crop Rebar Shape Images

jeremy_tammik — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:48:05 GMT

I just provided a suggestion in your other thread on indicating height and width pixels when exporting images:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/indicate-height-and-width-pixels-when-exporting-images/m- p/11281456

I would suggest combining the approach of adding a known frame around the objet to display plus using a PNG trimming tool to remove the known frame and as much white space around it as possible. For instance, you can search GitHub for PNG trim:

https://github.com/search?q=png+trim

Re: Crop Rebar Shape Images

miguel.gutierrezD74CZ — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 14:58:53 GMT

Indeed, a trim PNG code is what I might be missing. Gonna look it up how it is done.