Use the Drape Image command to overlay an image, such as an aerial photo, over a surface.
Before draping an image on a surface, insert the image into the drawing. The Drape Image command orients, aligns, and renders the inserted image so that the original flat image reshapes to replicate the relief of the surface terrain.
To drape an image over a surface
To perform this operation, ensure that the surface display style has triangles visibility enabled. See Editing a Surface Style Also, ensure that Realistic is a default type of materials set in the Material Editor in the Materials window (to view the settings, at the command line, enter MATERIALS).
- Click Insert tab
Reference panel Attach
.At the Command prompt, enter ImageAttach. - Navigate to the location where the image is saved, select the image, and click Open.
- In the Attach Image dialog box, specify Insertion Point, Scale, and Rotation or select Specify on Screen to do the adjustments in the drawing.
- Click OK.
- Select a surface. On the Surface tab, Surface Tools panel, click Drape Image
.At the Command prompt, enter DrapeImage. - In the Drape Image dialog box, select the image from the Image list or click
to select the image from the drawing. - From the Surface list, select the surface on which you want to drape the image or click to select the surface from the drawing.
- Under Render Material Name, enter the name for the new render material. This name will be associated with the new render material which is created from the image that you have imported.
- Click OK.
The image is draped over the surface. This image becomes associated with the new render material, which is added to the materials palette.
If the image is smaller than the surface, the draping only occurs on the area covered by the image. If the area of the image exceeds the area of the surface, the image is cropped along the surface boundary.