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I am having issues exporting my figure and loading it in to Arc. I have tried the Rasterize method in which I want to export the C2C absolute distances layer. I have tried saving/exporting as a variety of files (ASCII, shp, tif) but nothing seems to work/load correctly in Arc. Basically I want to export the figure so I can overlay other figures on top of it (I am looking at sinkhole development and I want to overlay a geological map).

Also as a side question, I have a beautiful figure now but when I zoom in I lose colour saturation. This is frustrating as I want to export as a bmp but it becomes quite dull when I zoom in to the areas of interest. I have tried sub sampling and running CC on a smaller area and the same thing happens... so I am not sure if it is related to the resolution of my data or if it may be a glitch with the program?

I am new to using this program and it has done exactly what I want but I just cant export the figure and present it.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thank you,

Morgan

What version are you using?

The best way to do this is to use the latest 2.8 beta version (only available on Windows for now) and export the grid as a raster (geotiff) with 'active layer' checked (be sure to set the distances scalar field as 'active layer' first). This may already work with the 2.7 version but I recall there was an issue in the raster encoding that prevented some software tools to read the output raster.

Another way is to export the raster as a cloud, change the background color to white and then render the 3D view as an image (with 'Display > Render to File'). If necessary you can set the background color to something very flashy (e.g. purple) and then use a paint program (such as Paint.net) to set the purple as a transparent color and eventually save the file as PNG.