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Editing the appearance of images

Editing the appearance of images - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Editing the appearance of images

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Since images are treated as external references, you are not able to edit them from within AutoCAD. That being said, AutoCAD does allow us to change how images are displayed in a drawing. In this lesson, we'll adjust the appearance of an image. On my screen, I have a 3D example. This is a concept for a wooden toy. It's a rubber band powered catapult. If you'd like to view this object in 3D, hold down your Shift key and then the middle wheel on your mouse. As you drag the mouse, you can orbit your view around the part. I'm going to release both buttons, and then I'll come down and click this 11 by 17 layout. The geometry that we see on this layout was extracted from that 3D model. As you can see, we've got a front view, a right-side view, and a top view. I'd like to add a rendered image. Since we're talking about image display, I thought it would be best to use a layout. Because this will give us the most realistic plottable view of the image. If you look at the Layer control, you can…

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