In our workflow, we often export geometry snippets from the web viewer to include in technical reports. However, we’ve noticed that the viewer background is slightly tinted, which can be visually distracting when embedding these snippets into documents. For clarity and aesthetics, especially in reports, it would be extremely helpful to have the option to render the viewer background as completely white.
This would allow the geometry to “float” seamlessly within the text, without any visible background tint interfering with the layout or contrast.
Is there currently a way to achieve this, or could this be considered as a feature enhancement?
Hi Erling. This is not currently possible directly in the viewer, but I will log it as a feature request!
However, you can achieve it through a workaround. When you go to embed a model there’s an option to make the background transparent (= white/black background depending on light/dark mode).
This will add the following to the URL: #embed={%22isEnabled%22:true,%22isTransparent%22:true}. Try to add that at the end of your model URL and you should see the model load without the background . Note: This will actually load your model in embedded mode, but it can be a workaround for now to take some screenshots.
We could add an option somewhere to remove the background color. Similar to in the embed.
We could add an “Export image” action to save an image to your computer.
I’m more tempted to do 2 if that is your real goal → exporting images. And we could export these with a transparent background so they work in any setting.
Preferably, I like to stay models. However, the requirements from customers forces us to make reports and images are then needed.
For what i can tell, exporting images function (2) would be great. However, there needs to be a lot of development make to implement:
crop what’s captured
control color options and so on
Maybe option 1 can be preferable, as this makes it easier to control the snippet function just my using the native windows one, compared to making a speckle function for this purpose solely?
. Note: This will actually load your model in embedded mode, but it can be a workaround for now to take some screenshots.
