Workspace Cannot Be Exported As An Image

David_Koch · March 22, 2024, 2:28pm

I almost always export an image of the workspace of my “final” graphs, so that I know what I had when a working version was created. I love the image export feature, but in 2.19.3 (Dynamo Core 2.19.3.6394 / Dynamo Revit 2.19.3.10292) running from Revit 2024.2 (24.2.0.63; 20231029_1515(x64); 2024.2.0), I keep getting an error message that I have never run into in previous versions:

The workspace cannot be exported as an image because it contains nodes that are too far away from each other.

This is happening in graphs that had no issue being exported in previous versions. I know the nodes are bigger now, but the size of the graph has not changed that much. I just tried the image export on a three-node graph. You cannot get much smaller than that, and I got the same error. Is this just a problem with the image generator in general? I searched, and I did not find any other threads on this topic. Am I the only person who uses this feature? Or is there some setting that I have overlooked?

Here is the three-node graph that failed:

David

jacob.small · March 22, 2024, 5:56pm

Hey @David_Koch - long time no see!

I can’t reproduce the issue on my end - can you post the actual .dyn? It may be that over time your graphs have shifted to be REALLY FAR from the origin. This is something I can quickly check, but not without the file itself.

Thanks!

David_Koch · March 22, 2024, 7:12pm

Thanks for the response. Its been quiet in the Community Conversations - sorry, Events - area lately.

The three-node graph was started from scratch. I would hope that would be near the origin. I did not save that one. The attached is the one I was trying to capture today. In looking at the files I have, I was successful in getting a screen capture of this graph on January 2, 2024, but not today.
2-19-3_EC Revit 2024 Worksets.dyn (53.0 KB)

David_Koch · May 22, 2024, 8:59pm

Revisiting this, as I continue to have this problem in Revit 2024/Dynamo 2.19.3. To test, I started a brand new graph and put some test nodes on the screen without panning or zooming. I get the same results - the nodes are “too far away from each other.” If they are far from some unmarked origin, that is because Dynamo is opening a new graph far from the origin.

I have attached the DYN file as well.
2-19-3_TestGraphForImageExport.dyn (6.6 KB)

jacob.small · May 22, 2024, 9:14pm

Hey - sorry for not following up.

I wasn’t able to reproduce so it might be something in the system. Can you try from a Dynamo sandbox insurance? If that doesn’t work can you post the journal for Revit and the log from when the export failed?

FYI @Michael_Kirschner2

Michael_Kirschner2 · May 22, 2024, 11:15pm

so the error is also shown if the image fails to be created for lots of reasons… - so also make sure that Dynamo has access to this path (the user you are running Dynamo as)

github.com

DynamoDS/Dynamo/blob/afc1be2c3eac05c66a9847eed8b8452a63197e70/src/DynamoCoreWpf/Views/Core/WorkspaceView.xaml.cs#L431


      
          [HandleProcessCorruptedStateExceptions]
          internal ExportImageResult IsWorkSpaceRenderValidAsImage(bool validating, string path = null)
          {
              ExportImageResult result = ExportImageResult.EmptyDrawing;
              RenderTargetBitmap workSpaceRender = GetRender();
              if (workSpaceRender == null) return result;
          
              result = ExportImageResult.IsValidAsImage;
              if (validating)
              {
                  path = $"{ViewModel.DynamoViewModel.PreferencesViewModel.BackupLocation}\\{System.DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString()}.png";
              }            
          
              try
              {
                  using (var stm = System.IO.File.Create(path))
                  {
                      // Encode as PNG format
                      var pngEncoder = new PngBitmapEncoder();
                      pngEncoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(workSpaceRender));
                      pngEncoder.Save(stm);

David_Koch · August 14, 2024, 9:51pm

Thank you for the response, and apologies for my tardy notice of it.

Pardon my ignorance, but how do I translate that into something that I can test to see if I have access? I guess that {ViewModel.DynamoViewModel.PreferencesViewModel.BackupLocation} gets transformed into a file path or URL. Pasting that text into File Explorer did not work.

Thank you for any additional help you can provide.

David_Koch · August 19, 2024, 7:45pm

It works in Dynamo Sandbox 3-2-2.

(Not much of a graph; just wanted something to try the export.)

rajeshjamariya16 · December 6, 2024, 8:54am

any solution here? I’m having the same error.

jacob.small · December 6, 2024, 3:11pm

Can you share a sample graph? or is it any graph for you?

rajeshjamariya16 · December 12, 2024, 1:50am

yep any graph.

jacob.small · December 12, 2024, 6:22am

Place one node on canvas and try to export that, then post that dyn file so we can look at what might be going on.

rajeshjamariya16 · December 12, 2024, 6:24am

Single Node.dyn (2.5 KB)

loi.tranXGWDR · December 17, 2024, 3:04am

I’m having the same error. And this my solution it work, you can try to change move second row (same my picture below) the directory path from drive C:\User(Your User)\Appdata\Roaming\Dynamo\Dynammo Revit\2.19

rajeshjamariya16 · December 17, 2024, 3:32am

Did not work for me.

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