rendering png from command line

You can use the --camera option to do what you want. You can also use the equivalent $vpr, $vpt, $vpf and $vpd variables instead, which will also let you preview your camera positioning inside OpenSCAD.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Other_Language_Features#$vpr,_$vpt,_$vpf_and_$vpd

However, you'll need a pretty recent development snapshot (from the last few weeks) for this method, since these variables were ignored in command line usage until very recently.

On October 30, 2020 at 13:30:44, fractorr ([hidden email]) wrote:

I am trying to generate images using command line options but having a hard
to doing what I want. I have an object that I generate is several different
sizes based on a parameter and I would like to generate all the different
sizes so they are not fit to view all. With that enabled the smaller sizes
actually look bigger than the larger sizes.

In the first image it is actually about a quarter of the size as the second
image, how do I make it look like it should from command line? I have a lot
of these to generate so doing them manually is not an option. I assume I
would use the --camera option but not sure how I go about using it, any
suggestions or examples?

This is a small object
<http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1255/test-3.png>

This is a larger object
<http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1255/test-2.png>






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Yes. If you set those variables in your openscad file, they will control the viewport in both places (again, assuming you have a very recent development snapshot). You can also set your viewpoint manually in the preview window, then echo those out to find the values you want, which you can either write into the code that way or use to populate the --camera settings.

On October 30, 2020 at 15:11:55, Trevor Orr ([hidden email]) wrote:

I think I see, I can use the gui to find the translation, rotation and distance numbers for the largest object and use those numbers for all of the objects that I generate on the command line and then I should have the desired outcome right?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 2:38 PM Whosawhatsis <[hidden email]> wrote:

You can use the --camera option to do what you want. You can also use the equivalent $vpr, $vpt, $vpf and $vpd variables instead, which will also let you preview your camera positioning inside OpenSCAD.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Other_Language_Features#$vpr,_$vpt,_$vpf_and_$vpd

However, you'll need a pretty recent development snapshot (from the last few weeks) for this method, since these variables were ignored in command line usage until very recently.

On October 30, 2020 at 13:30:44, fractorr ([hidden email]) wrote:

I am trying to generate images using command line options but having a hard
to doing what I want. I have an object that I generate is several different
sizes based on a parameter and I would like to generate all the different
sizes so they are not fit to view all. With that enabled the smaller sizes
actually look bigger than the larger sizes.

In the first image it is actually about a quarter of the size as the second
image, how do I make it look like it should from command line? I have a lot
of these to generate so doing them manually is not an option. I assume I
would use the --camera option but not sure how I go about using it, any
suggestions or examples?

This is a small object
<http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1255/test-3.png>

This is a larger object
<http://forum.openscad.org/file/t1255/test-2.png>






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