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Importing JPEG images

Importing JPEG images - Rhino Tutorial

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Importing JPEG images

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- [Instructor] In this lesson we'll learn how to import and work with JPEG images. Getting a JPEG of your project alone is not ideal for a model builder, as an image will not have any accurate dimensional information. It's doable though. And I'll show you how to best set up your Rhino file using this information. So we're going to use a command called picture frame. So let's type that in, picture, frame, hit enter. In our exercise folder you're going to navigate to chapter two importing. Then we're going to go to our JPEG file. And in that file you'll see a series of elevations as JPEG images. As a side note, you can only import JPEG images using this command. You can't, for instance, pull in a GIF or ping image. So let's select our South elevation to get started. Hit open. So we're still in our command. And you know that because you can see our cursors across here. So it's asking us to draw out the corner of…

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