- So now let's talk about another tool in the toolbox.
So if you go over to the toolbox
and at the very bottom
below the more category there is this speaker tool.
And if we double click on that,
we are brought up with a dialog box
that allows us to basically open
a location where an image might be.
And this tool allows us
to place various different image formats into ArchiCAD.
So if you have a need to place an image or a logo
or potentially maybe a stamp or some other type of image
this is the way you would want to do it.
So you can go to open
and then you can locate the image that you want to place.
And it gives you a bunch
of different options for image types.
And in here you can adjust the name of it.
You can adjust the size of it.
And what's nice about this
is if you accidentally get it out of proportion.
So something like that,
I can go to restore original values
and I can also keep the proportions as I'm adjusting it.
I can also adjust the dots per inch
or the resolution of the image that I bring in
and you can make it transparent.
So say if you have a PNG
or something with a transparent background
you can maintain that by just selecting this transparent
you can also mirror the image.
And if you're storing the image inside of archiCAD,
you can tell archiCAD to store it
as a different type of image.
For whatever reason you might want to do that.
And then you can save it within your project library.
And of course you can control the layer
that that image is on.
So let's just place this and see what happens.
So we placed this and there is our GRAPHISOFT logo,
so if I go up here and disconnect this,
I can distort it.
And so if I got to that point
I was not really happy with it.
I can always go back
to the settings restore original values,
and also keep the proportions
so that it doesn't get distorted like that.
So pretty simple, pretty straightforward
just a really clean way to place images.