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Macro Copy3DViewToClipboard

{{Macro |Name=Macro Copy3DViewToClipboard |Icon=Macro_Copy3DViewToClipboard.png |Description=Macro will copy the contents of the 3D view to the clipboard in image bitmap (BMP).
The copy in Gimp is not possible Gimp use his model in memory. |Author=Mario52 |Version=00.01 |Date=2016-09-14 |FCVersion= <=0.17 |Download=[https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/images/8/84/Macro_Copy3DViewToClipboard.png ToolBar Icon] |Shortcut=G, Q |SeeAlso=Macro Snip
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Description

Macro will copy the contents of the 3D view to the clipboard in image bitmap (BMP). The copy in Gimp is not possible Gimp use his model in memory.

How To Use

• Run once to activate macro (the macro is loaded resident into the memory of the PC).
• Press G to grab the contents of the 3d view and copy them to the clipboard.
• Press Q to quit.

PS: if you wild other format modify the values of the line number 33 ex:

line 33 : glw.resize(640, 480) # reduce the SubWindow

to

Line 33 : glw.resize(800, 600) # reduce the SubWindow

Discussion

See forum-thread here.

Code

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Macro_Copy3DViewToClipboard.FCMacro

{{MacroCode|code=

-- coding: utf-8 --

import PySide from PySide.QtGui import * from PySide import QtGui ,QtCore from PySide import QtOpenGL #from gimpfu import *

title = "Macro_Copy3DViewToClipboard" author = "Mario52" url = "http://www.freecadweb.org/index-fr.html" version = "00.01" date = "14/09/2016"

class ViewObserver: print "run FCGrab .."

def logPosition(self, info):
    import tempfile
    import os
    from PySide import QtGui

    pos = info["Key"]
    if pos.upper() == "G":
        pos = ""
       
        mw=Gui.getMainWindow()
        gl=mw.findChildren(QtOpenGL.QGLWidget)
        glw=gl[0] # just use the first element

        originalsize = glw.size()                               # originalsize SubWindow
        print "originalsize : ",originalsize.width(),", ", originalsize.height()

        glw.resize(640, 480)                                    # reduce the SubWindow
        glw.show()
        Gui.SendMsgToActiveView("ViewFit")
        print "resize in : ",glw.frameGeometry().width()," ",glw.frameGeometry().height()

        i=glw.grabFrameBuffer()
        cb=QtGui.qApp.clipboard()
        cb.setImage(i)
        glw.resize(originalsize.width(), originalsize.height()) # restore originalsize SubWindow
        print "Grab"

    if (pos.upper() == "Q"):
        v.removeEventCallback("SoKeyboardEvent",c)
        print "End FCGrab"

v=Gui.activeDocument().activeView() o = ViewObserver() c = v.addEventCallback("SoKeyboardEvent",o.logPosition)

}}

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