public bool RenderToFile(
	string filename
)

Public Function RenderToFile ( 
	filename As String
) As Boolean

public:
bool RenderToFile(
	String^ filename
)

member RenderToFile : 
        filename : string -> bool 

Parameters

filename

Type: SystemString

path and name of the image file to be generated. If the file extension is not one of the above type, no file is generated.

Return Value

The format of the generated image is chosen automatically according to the file extension. Returns true if successful.

If your application needs more control over creation of the file, please see the OIV.Inventor.SoOffscreenRenderArea.RenderToBuffer(OIV.Inventor.Devices.SoBufferObject) method.

Supported file types are:

extension file (case insensitive)	raster image type
.bmp	Windows bitmap
.dds	DirectDraw surface
.gif	Graphics Interchange Format
.hdr	hdr
.jp2, .j2c, .j2k, .jpc, .jpx, .ecw, .ecwp	jpeg 2000
.jpg, .jpeg, .jif, .jfif	Joint Photographic Experts Group
.pgx	pgx
.png	Portable Network Graphics
.pnm .pgm .ppm	pnm
.ps	PostScript
.rgb .sgi	sgi
.ras	sun
.tif .tiff	Tagged Image File Format

Reference