It is hard to believe that your machine cannot render a larger image. In your example, 1260 x 900 is terribly small - 4' x 3' image at 300 dpi. Now, no matter what pixel sizes you may change the saved view to, it will be automatically resized on the layout to display at 300 dpi, and your image will print well. then open the drawing settings for the placed drawing and under Properties set the Resolution to 300 dpi. See screenshot.ĭrag this view onto a layout as any other view. (If you have to change your photo rendering settings, then do so, click the 'Get Current Window's Settings' button at the top of the View Settings, and then re-select 'Photorendering Window' in the '3D Only' panel. which is created to display not the 3D window, but the Photorendering Window. Instead, you should be placing a 3D View. If the purpose is to get the image on a layout, then you should not be copying/pasting or saving as an image file (unless the render time is excessive).

Please let me know if there are any better techniques for placing a good (or even better) rendered image on a layout. Still this combination of settings and workflow give me a 'good enough' image on the layout. Unfortunately, the image pastes in using the Drawing tool which is less flexible that the Figure tool. I also discover that I could render the image then Select All on the rendered image then Copy and Paste the rendered image right onto a layout. I experimented with the settings until I found a combination that does render. While experimenting with all of the setting in the PhotoRender Settings I discovered that I could set the dialog at resolutions so high that I only got an error message that indicated that my computer didn't have enough memory to render the image.

Archicad sketch render