Troubles Exporting 2D Images

dereknunez · 2 Nov 2010, 17:23

I am trying to export some 2D images. Some are exporting with solid gray bars across the image. Any ideas? I am attaching a couple of images as an example. The first image has 5,568 edges and 2,377 faces. The second, which doesn't show any gray bars has 2,288 edges and 712 faces. Is the number of faces and edges causing the problem? The first images is from a 3D dwg import from Revit. The last was a model made entirely in SketchUp. I am doing this on a MacBook with integrated graphics card. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

dereknunez · 2 Nov 2010, 18:03

Of course, as soon as I post on this I figure out what is the problem. I tried to recall if I had done anything recently to affect the model. I then remembered that I had "Geo-located" the model from within Sketchup. Could this be the problem???? Well, I decided to open up a previous version of the Sketchup model before I did this. Here is the result without the "geo-location". This is the original export from Revit, 4 buildings, interior and exterior elements, all 117,567 faces. And it exported fine. So it must have been due to geo-location and having Sketchup import the location image from Google Earth. Anyone else experienced this? Any way to remedy?

jeff hammond · 2 Nov 2010, 18:34

it's actually being caused by changing the camera's aspect ratio (more likely than not, from a rendering exporter)..

which renderer are you using? (asking because some of them have their own reset camera feature.. otherwise, there's a snippet of ruby code i'll dig up which will fix it)

jeff hammond · 2 Nov 2010, 18:44

here's the code:

Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.aspect_ratio=0.0

copy/past that into the ruby console (Window -> Ruby Console) and press return..
try exporting again..