Photoworks (and the young up-and-comer, PhotoView 360) are great tools to make images for a marketing brochure, website, or just to show off your cool product.
But what if you need an image rendered 1:1 scale at exactly a certain size, let’s say 8.5″ x 11″, for printing out? It’s not immediately obvious how to do this, but you can do it too, after understanding two key points.
First, that the “Render to File” command always renders a certain number of pixels. All the “Image Size” options just dance around that, even image size in inches. So first, figure out how many pixels by pixels you want. For an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper at 200 dpi, that would be (8.5 x 200= 1700) 1700 by 2200 pixels. Write those numbers down.
Secondly, you’ll need to create a camera view to lock down how big things look on your screen. (You can calculate exact pixels by pixels all you want, but if you accidentally zoom in a little before the render, then the whole kettle of fish is off.)
So, right click on the “Lights, Cameras and Scene” folder in the feature tree and add a camera. Position the camera to look straight down on your part. Sketch geometry is good for this- I made a line sticking 100 mm above my part and attached the camera location to that. (Did I forget to mention before now about creating sketch geometry? Now this post’s kettle of fish is off.)
The important part is at the bottom of the Camera property manager.
Turn off perspective and set the height to how high you want your total picture to be, 8.5 inches in my case. Make sure your aspect ratio is what you want (8.5 by 11 for normal paper) and then hit ok.
Right click on the camera you just made in the “Lights” folder and turn ON camera view. You should no longer be able to rotate the view, and the camera will only see as large as the camera view you created.
Finally, “Render to file” and enter the number of pixels by pixels you wrote down from before, and the render will be 1:1 when you print it out.
The above is for PhotoWorks users only, and hopefully when Photoview360 steps up and replaces PhotoWorks next year, the capabilities will still be there!
Happy rendering!
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