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Drawing with reference images: Background bitmap

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Drawing with reference images: Background bitmap

- [Instructor] Rhino's Background Bitmap command helps us create a background image in any of the viewports. And this can be really useful for tracing a design, for taking measurements or for analyzing a design. To help us practice with Background Bitmaps I've got the exercise file Modeling-bitmap.3dm open. And I've got a little bit of reference geometry here. This is going to help us to align a few different background bitmaps in 3D space. Let's go ahead and place a background bitmap in the Top viewport. So click on the Top viewport to activate it. Under the View menu, under Background Bitmap I'll click Place. And that's the only option we get, since we haven't set a background bitmap in that viewport yet. So let's go ahead and select our image file and it's this one here with the underscore Top at the end. So I'll click to open. Now Rhino is prompting me to pick a point to represent the first corner. So I'm going to zoom…

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