General Questions
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Is it possible to crop a Revu Snapshot Image?
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Is it possible to crop a Revu Snapshot Image?
I’m using the Revu Snapshot tool to capture linework from one sheet so that I can overlay the linework onto another sheet. (Unfortunately the sheets are different scales so I cannot do a simple overlay.)
This is working well with one exception – the image captured with Snapshot extends outside of the border on the sheet that I’m pasting it to. I thought I’d be able to crop the image, but Revu doesn’t seem to allow this. I can crop the Snip that I captured with the Windows sniping tool, but not the one captured with Snapshot. Unfortunately capturing the linework with the Windows Sniping Tool isn’t an option as it will capture the white background too.
Has anyone else had this issue? Short of taking a more accurate Snapshot I’m out of solutions…
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Points: 24,987Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt IIII
This one had me scratching my head @DavidCutler
You can crop an image, but apparently not a snapshot. It would be a long work around to save the snapshot to an image file, insert it and then crop it. Not worth it.
You said you cannot use the Overlay function because the drawings are different scales. Have you tried the different Alignment options when overlaying? I typically use the 3 Points method and it will scale them to match and overlay.
Keep me posted, great question and use case.
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Points: 14,514Rank: UC2 Brainery Blue Belt IIII
As @troy-degroot has said, the three point method of overlaying should work with different scales. It will even work with different rotations of drawings.
Another way to use the Snapshot is to save it to a toolchest which is scaled to the original drawing. Then when you take it from the tool chest and paste it on the new drawing it will automatically resize to the new drawing.
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Points: 28,535Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Interesting about using the 3 point method with different scales/rotations. Definitely have tried that before.
I do like the trick of saving snapshot images to a scaled toolbox and the pasting the image from the toolbox onto a sheet of a different scale. I like this so much I’ve created a series of scaled toolboxes setup for 1”=10 FT, 1”=20FT, etc to 1”=60FT so that I don’t have to set a scale each time I use it. 😎
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Points: 24,987Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt IIII
Nice little tip you snuck into your own post. Thanks for sharing. Always adding value my friend.
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