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To set up and render a scene
1 Choose Home tab ➤ Tools panel ➤ Presenter to open the Presenter window.
2 Set up the scene.
■ Use the Materials tab to drag and drop materials onto items in the model.
You can use the predefined materials, or create your own from the templates in the Materials tab (see
“
Use Presenter Materials” on page 353 for more details).
Or
Use the Rules tab to set up rules which define project-wide material application (see “Use Presenter Rules”
on page 378 for more details).
■ Use the Texture Space tab to more accurately map materials onto items in the scene (see “
Use Presenter
Texture Space
” on page 376 for more details on this).
■ Use the Lighting tab to set up additional lighting (see “Use Presenter Lights” on page 360 for more details).
■ Use the Effects tab to add background and foreground effects to the scene (see “Use Presenter Rendering
Effects
” on page 371 for more details).
■ Use the Rendering tab to select a rendering style for the render (see “Use Presenter Rendering Styles” on
page 374 for more details).
3 At any point, you can click Render to start the rendering process in the Scene View. The rendering process
can be stopped at any point by clicking Stop.
4 Click Clear to clear the render in the Scene View, and return to an OpenGL interactive view.
To print a rendered image
1 Apply materials and lighting effects to the required scene, and click Render.
2 When the scene is rendered, click the Output tab ➤ Visuals panel ➤ Rendered Image.
3 In the Export Rendered Image dialog box, select Printer from the Type drop-down list.
The Browse options are grayed out.
4 Click OK.
5 In the Print dialog box, select the desired printer, enter the print settings, and click OK.
Ribbon: Output tab ➤ Visuals panel ➤ Rendered Image
Menu: Application button ➤ Export ➤ Images & Animations ➤ Rendered Image
To save a rendered image
1 Apply materials and lighting effects to the required scene, and click Render.
2 When the scene is rendered, click the Output tab ➤ Visuals panel ➤ Rendered Image
.
3 In the Export Rendered Image dialog box, select the desired file type from the Type drop-down list. For
more information, see “Export Rendered Image Dialog Box” on page 433
4 Browse to a location and enter the name of the file you want to render to.
5 Set the Size of the rendered file.
NOTE If you choose Use View as the Size of the image file, then Autodesk Navisworks will save any existing render
in the Scene View, without having to render again from scratch.
6 Click OK.
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