Export Data

You can export data from DesignBuilder screens:

Edit Screen - exports a non-rendered 3-D image of the building. Alternatively a 3-D DXF file can be exported.
Visualisation Screen - exports a rendered 3-D image of the building optionally including shading and antialiasing..
Heating and Cooling Design Screens - exports design data (graphical, tabular, spreadsheet).
Simulation Screen - exports simulation data (graphical, tabular, spreadsheet).

You can export to a range of destinations (depending on the nature of the data):

File - store output in a file which can be imported into your documents/e-mails.
Printer - sends output directly to the printer.
Clipboard - for pasting directly into word processors etc.
Report topic - for generating reports using the Compile Reports feature.

Export format options depend on the nature of the data. The full range of options is:

Bitmap - best bitmap based output quality but very large file sizes.
PNG - better quality compression than JPEG but sometimes have larger file sizes.
TIFF - best bitmap based output quality but very large file sizes.
GIF - good compression but black and white only.
JPEG - recommended for 3-D images of the model because of its good quality combined with small file sizes.
DXF - generate 3-D DXF data of the model - only available from Edit and Visualisation Screens. The 3-D DXF file generated by DesignBuilder is suitable for reading into other CAD software. Two options are available:

1-Whole model with details which includes all of the details of the model as seen on the Visualisation tab, and,
2-Zones which generates the internal surfaces as used in simulations and other energy calculations.

Windows metafile - results graphs only - scalable so graphs can be resized without losing quality.
CSV spreadsheet - grid results and library data only.
Text - reports only.