- 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 figure tool.
And, if we double click on that, we are brought up
with a dialogue 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 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 place 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 and I was not really happy
with it, I can always go back to the settings,
restore original values and also keep the proportion
so that it doesn't get distorted like that.
So, pretty simple, pretty straight forward.
Just a really clean way to place images.