How to export a 3D graph to a graphics file (bmp or jpg)?

[timswait]

Just what it says in the title! I need to save the images I'm getting in my 3D graph window on the front panel of my VI as some sort of picture file (jpg, bmp, etc). Actually I want to stitch them together as an animation, but I have another program I can use for that if I can output a sequence of picture files.
I'm fairly new to Labview, and I've found the "write to jpeg" function, but don't know how to convert my 3d graph into something that it can understand.

[Ben]

1) On the FP right click on the FRAME of the 3d graph and select "Create >> Invoke node".

2) Pop-up on the Invoke node and choose "Get Image".

Ben

[MikeS81]

Hi timswait,

you can use the invoke node of the 3D graph to get a picture of your control.

Mike

[Ben]

.... and to handle the "etc." see Boltzmann's reply here to learn how to be able to import your graph into PowerPoint such that you can rotate, zoom etc.

Ben

[timswait]

Cheers guys, that's got it!



Message Edited by timswait on 08-01-2008 02:20 PM

[timswait]

That's sorted that problem, the next is can I put a legend in the graph to identify the what colour matches what value? I'm probably just being thick, but I can't find it in the "properties" for the graph.
Cheers