Printing, copying and exporting views

3D views may be printed, copied to the windows clipboard, or exported to a windows graphics metafile, so that the pictures may be used in other applications such as word processors and graphics packages.

First select the view and adjust the viewpoint as desired. Then to copy to the clipboard press CTRL+C, or select copy from the popup menu. The popup menu also has commands to print or export the 3D view. If needed, you can first adjust the printer setup using the printer setup command on the popup menu or on the file menu.

If you are printing the view on a black and white printer (or are transferring the view into a document which you intend to print on a black and white printer) then it is often best to first set OrcaFlex to output in monochrome (use the Tools | Preferences | Output menu item). This avoids light colours appearing as faint shades of grey.

After a 3D view has been transferred to another application you should be careful not to change its aspect ratio, since this will produce unequal scaling in the vertical and horizontal directions and invalidate the scale bar. In Word you can maintain aspect ratio by dragging the corners of the picture rather than the sides.