Export and PDF Layouts
Mapping Matter produces field-ready documentation directly from your scene: PDF layout sheets, projector spec CSVs, and 3D mesh exports for handoff to other tools.
PDF layouts
Section titled “PDF layouts”A PDF layout is a saved page template with a title block, a chosen camera view, and one or more sections of projector data. Click PDF layouts in the bottom Panels strip to open the PDF Layouts panel.
The panel lists every layout in the scene. Use the + / clone / delete buttons at the top to manage layouts. Selecting a layout opens its editor in the Properties panel:
- Name — the layout’s label.
- Logo — pick a logo image for the title block.
- Text — free-form title-block text.
- Date / Page / Version — title-block fields shown on the rendered PDF.
- Viewport 1 pov — which camera the layout renders from. Pick a saved POV or an Observer to render the page exactly through their eye position and aim — handy for human-eye walkthroughs or to demonstrate what an audience member will see — rather than baking the live viewport into the PDF.
- Advanced options — collapsible with Orientation (Portrait / Landscape), Margin (left / top / right / bottom), and Sidebar Width.
Use the three generate buttons at the bottom of the panel:
- Print layout — renders the chosen viewpoint with the title block and projector summary.
- Print projectors list — renders the table of projector specs only.
- Print views per projector — renders one page per projector showing its own viewpoint and specs.
Saved layouts become entries in your layout library for reuse across scenes.
Export menu
Section titled “Export menu”Click Export on the right side of the toolbar to open the export dropdown:
CSV export
Section titled “CSV export”The Projectors as CSV and LED screens as CSV actions in the Export dropdown produce row-per-object specification tables. Useful for handoff to media servers (Designer, Notch, others) that import scene metadata.
Projector and LED CSV files are written without a UTF-8 byte-order mark so the Designer importer can parse them directly. Truss BOM as CSV still includes the BOM so Excel renders the multiplication sign in dimension columns correctly.
The Truss BOM as CSV action emits a rigging bill of materials: one row per truss (type, profile, dimensions, mass), one row per base, plus per-truss attachee rollups walked through any Symmetry copies so projector and LED counts reflect what’s actually rigged. See Trusses & mounting.
3D mesh export
Section titled “3D mesh export”The Export dropdown’s Export as OBJ / Collada / STL actions emit a scene mesh containing the selected geometry (or all visible geometry if nothing is selected). Use Export selection as OBJ to limit the output to the current selection — multi-object selections (including imported References and projector bodies) emit non-empty geometry, and the units and axis convention match the whole-scene exports (metres, Y-up).
Snapshot export
Section titled “Snapshot export”A published snapshot can also be exported as a single self-contained .zip containing the scene JSON, all referenced textures, meshes, and the title block — used for offline archives and contractual handoff.