Capturing a snapshot of Sketchup file?

[Russell Tribby]

I have a cabinet for a client that I've designed in Sketchup. For whatever reason he can't figure out how to download the program and open the file. How can I capture a snaphshot of the cabinet to send to him via email?

[Russell Tribby]

Never mind. I got it figured out.

[Narayan Nayar]

OK, but for those down the road who need to do this and find this thread via search, it's File->Export->2D Graphic..., then select a 2D graphic file type and the desired options.

It'll export an image of whatever you have in the current window.

[George Bregar]

Or just hit "Print screen and paste it into paint, save as a whatever file type you want (jpg, etc)

[Narayan Nayar]

That'll work, but only on a PC.

Doing it via export will give you some useful options, such as antialiasing (softening the pixels on diagonals) and image size/compression. For most purposes, you'll get a better image via export.

[Thomas Bank]

That'll work, but only on a PC.

Or ⌘⌦ 4 on the Mac for screen capture.

But I agree, doing the export will give you better quality.

[Todd Burch]

I always use ALT+PRINT SCREEN on Windows to just capture the active window, or CMD+SHIFT+4 and then rubber-band my selection on the Mac, and the press RETURN.

Both produce an image of just the active window contents.

Todd