I fully expect this to go above 10 gigabytes as GeoTIFF, that's totally fine for me. I have lots of swap space though, so even if, it should be able to go very slowly. There totally might be a memory leak, I would think the developers removed the error otherwise (it is a non-quitting QGIS message dialog). By map I meant the map view or a map view in the composer. How can I export my map at a very high resolution (think 100k pixels per side)? I know it sounds silly but I really want to do this.īy making a map I mean adding various layers (vector and raster) and styling them. If I try to make it bigger via resolution or paper size, it says there might be a memory leak and refuses to export. The print composer only lets me export an image up to a fixed size.
We have a full service color lab here so I was able to work with my print techs and they said 150 dpi would be sufficient. If I really wanted to hold the 300 dpi for that size, I would need a final image that was 36,000 x 43,200 pixels. The final image needed to be 120” x 144” at 300 dpi so let’s do some math. Let’s take a project I ran a few years ago where we wanted to put a rendered image on our training room wall. The TIF format rendered at 1920 x 1080, 300 dpi was a 1.67mb file. Rendered at 1920 x 1080, 96 dpi, 582 kb file size and saved in JPG format. Results are similar for renderings to include in this blog post.įigure 1. SOLIDWORKS PV360 outputs JPGs at 96 dpi and TIFs at 300 dpi.
Don’t worry about going above 300 for most needs since the human eye can’t see those dots. Commercial printers have standardized on 300 dpi so that is what we would want to output when providing print ready images. The more dense the dots, the higher quality the image. Web images are fine at 72 dpi whereas print images usually need to be 300 dpi.ĭPI or Dots Per Inch comes from printers laying physical dots on a physical paper – today an interchangeable term is PPI or Pixels Per Inch for digital images. There are typically two types of outputs that many users deal with – web and print ready images. Output size will greatly affect clean edges and lines depending on the application of the image. Here’s what I provided them with suggestions to get their final render.Ī blog post written about all of the subjective areas would be many pages long so we’ll skip the camera, appearances, scene and lighting selections but focus on the output size. Setting up the initial render is quite easy but getting those final touches on the final render can be a bit frustrating. I recently had a support call with one such user who just couldn’t get that final render to come out with their desired results with cleaner edges and lines. Even though SOLIDWORKS Visualize is out, there are still plenty who will continue to use PV360 for some time.