Displays rendered output of the current model.
Summary
The Render Window is divided into the following three panes:
- Image pane. Displays the rendered image.
- Statistics pane. On the right side; shows the current settings used for the rendering.
- History pane. At the bottom; provides a recent history of images rendered from the current model and a progress meter to display rendering progress.
Separate render windows open for each drawing from which you are creating renderings. Rendering from any drawing always appears in its corresponding render window.
From the Render Window, you can
- Save the image to a file.
- Save a copy of the image to a file.
- Monitor the progress of the current rendering.
- Review the settings used for the current rendering.
- Track the rendering history of the model.
- Purge, delete, or purge and delete an image from the rendering history.
- Zoom into a section of the rendered image, pan around the image, and then zoom back out.
List of Options
The following options are displayed.
File Menu
Saves rendered images.
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Save
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Saves an image to a bitmap file. For more information, see “Save and Redisplay a Rendered Image”.
You cannot use the SAVEIMG command when rendering to the Render Window. This command applies only when you are rendering to a viewport.
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Save Copy
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Saves a copy of an image to a new location without affecting the location stored with the current entry.
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Exit
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Closes the Render Window.
If you re-open the render window, the history of past renderings is retained.
View Menu
Displays different elements that make up the Render Window.
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Status Bar
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Displays the status bar below the History pane.
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Statistics Pane
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Displays the entire Statistics pane.
Tools Menu
Provides commands for zooming into and out of a rendered image.
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Zoom +
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Zooms into the rendering in the Image pane. When zoomed in, you can pan around the image.
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Zoom -
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Zooms out of the rendering in the Image pane.
Image Pane
Primary output target of the renderer.
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Zoom factor
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The zoom factor ranges from 1:64 to 64:1 in powers of two. You can change the zoom factor with the mouse wheel.
Progress Meter / Status Bar
There are four phases that occur before an image is complete; translation, photon emission, final gather, and render. The progress meter is split to report two pieces of information.
- The top bar reports the progress within the current phase.
- The bottom bar shows the progress made toward completion of the entire rendering.
The translation and render phases always occur. Photon emission and final gather phases only occur if those options have been enabled. Processing time is only spent for those phases that are active.
You can also cancel a rendering by clicking the X icon next to the progress meter, or by pressing Esc.
A status bar, at the lower lift corner of the Render Window, echoes the progress of the top bar on the progress meter.
History Pane
The data stored in history entries includes
- Output File Name. File name of the rendering and an indicator to tell you the type of rendering.
- Output Size.
- View. View name that is being rendered. If no named view is used, the view is stored as current view.
- Render Time. Render time measured in hours : minutes : seconds.
- Render Preset. Name of the render preset used for the rendering.
Any history entry that has a file name will be saved.
History Pane - Shortcut Menu
Right-clicking on a history entry displays a menu that contains the following options:
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Render Again
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Restarts the renderer for the selected history entry.
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Save
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Displays the Render Output File dialog box where you can save the image to disk. If you’ve selected a temporary entry, saving converts it to a normal entry.
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Save Copy
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Saves the image to a new location without affecting the location stored in the entry. The Render Output File dialog box is displayed.
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Make Render Settings Current
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Loads the render settings associated with the selected history entry if multiple history entries are present that use different render presets.
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Remove From The List
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Removes the entry from the history while leaving any associated image files in place.
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Delete Output File
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Removes the rendered image from the Image pane.
Statistics Pane
This information is derived from settings made in the Render Presets Manager dialog box along with information that is generated at the time of the rendering.
