Starting from your model
Capture the Rhino view or attach an image, and let a style redraw it, restyle it or edit it.
Most genres can start from a picture instead of a blank sheet: the Rhino view, a hand sketch, a plan, or a photo of the site. The picture keeps the image close to your design; the style decides how it's drawn.
Capture the Rhino view
Press the camera button in the studio. Wrengler captures the active viewport as it is, on a white background with the grid and axes hidden, at up to 1,536 pixels on the long side.
Set the view up first:
- Display mode. Technical, Pen or Arctic give clean edges and flat surfaces, which read best. Rendered modes with textures give the model more to misread.
- Camera. Frame the view you want the image to have. For street-level images, an eye-level perspective with two-point verticals; for diagrams and plans, a parallel projection.
- Selection. Deselect everything and turn the gumball off, or they may be drawn too.
- Context. Put neighbouring buildings on a lighter layer or hide them, so the model knows what the subject is.
Anything the plug-in draws into the view, like a heatmap, appears in the capture too. Turn it off first if you don't want the model to see it.
Attach an image
Press the paperclip to attach a PNG, JPEG or WebP: a sketch, a plan exported as black linework
on white, a site photo, or a Rhino view exported with ViewCaptureToFile. Large images are shrunk
to 1,536 pixels before they're sent.
What the style does with it
Each style uses a reference in one of three ways, and the studio's hint under the attach buttons says which:
| The style… | What happens | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Restyles it | Keeps the camera, the massing and the openings, and changes only how it's drawn or rendered | Ink line as captured, a sketch that holds your lines, Render my model |
| Redraws it | Keeps the building recognisable but draws it from another view or as a sequence | Exploded axo from a perspective capture, a four-step diagram |
| Edits it | Changes only what you describe in a photo, and leaves the rest as photographed | Before → after, Site photomontage, greening a site photo |
The frame follows the reference unless you pick another one.
A reference guides the model; it doesn't bind it. Models redraw the whole picture, so an extra window or a changed roofline can appear even when the style keeps your geometry. Nothing checks the image against your model, and the provenance file says so. Compare it with the view before you share it.