capture picture ?
capture picture ?
(OP)
I'm fairly new to SolidWorks and have had questions regarding sketch entities. I sometimes like to send them off to another helpful person so that they can see what I'm talking about.
I want to capture a picture only of a pending sketch without having to exit the sketch....which is what SW wants you to do if trying to save as a jpg file.
I dont want or need the feature tree or toolbars to show up either, so how can I get a *jpg, or other pic, short of using Windows PrintScreen function and cropping out the extraneous portions ?
Thanx, Gatz
I want to capture a picture only of a pending sketch without having to exit the sketch....which is what SW wants you to do if trying to save as a jpg file.
I dont want or need the feature tree or toolbars to show up either, so how can I get a *jpg, or other pic, short of using Windows PrintScreen function and cropping out the extraneous portions ?
Thanx, Gatz






RE: capture picture ?
I believe you can download a demo version of it if you'd like to try it out.
RE: capture picture ?
Otherwise, exit the sketch change its color to blue so it looks active, dimension it, and save as jpg.
I'd choose the first option.
RE: capture picture ?
Adam
Solidworks 2005 SP01.1
Windows 2000
RE: capture picture ?
RE: capture picture ?
Shortcut to Microsoft Paint
Ctrl-C to copy
drag a box around the area you want
Ctrl-C
Ctrl-N (new paint image)
Ctrl-V (paste)
Much easier done than said, and you have a pretty decent assortment of file types to save to.
RE: capture picture ?
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/grabzilla.html
RE: capture picture ?
RE: capture picture ?
I've downloaded Grabzilla and am going to try it out.
btw, Michael, if you print to a PDF, do you have to have the Adobe program? I only have a reader.
Gatz
RE: capture picture ?
You will need a PDF creation utility though. If you have the PDF function in SW, you should be able to print to the "Bluebeam PDF printer".
Other free programs can be found at;
www.pdf995.com
www.cutepddf.com
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
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