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Working on photo or scan file as background

Anonymous
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Wonder when you can only get hardcopy, does ArchiCAD have any feature for importing photo or scan files to work as background?
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Anonymous
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Yes it does, but I advise you to take a quick look at the manual, you will be surprised how much you can do!
Anonymous
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May I know under what word I have to search?
Anonymous
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like the word "picture" ? Ok, just kidding again. I'm in a happy mood today.
page 447 of the reference guide, should be what you need.
Anonymous
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Sorry, forgot to tell you that my manual is v.13, but it should not be so different. Look for dragging and dropping pictures,dwg etc.
Laszlo Nagy
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You can place images in any viewpoint with the Figure Tool or the Drawing Tool if that is what you want.
If you want to use a photo as a background in a photorendering then the image file must be in one of your libraries loaded with the project. Then in the PhotoRendering Settings Dialog you can select that image as a background.
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