Drape an Image on a Surface

Use the following procedure to overlay one or more georeferenced images onto a surface to visualize how a job site's features relate to its topography. Draping an image on a surface enables you to correlate image details with surface elevations. To do this, simply add a georeferenced image to a surface as a member.

Prerequisites:

License, See the Subscription Plans page. For a license matrix by command, see the License page in the TBC Community. Also see View and manage licensed features.
Surface
Georeferenced image that corresponds to the surface

To drape an image on a surface:

Either import a georeferenced image or georeference an imported image that corresponds to the surface in your project.
Select the image in the Project Explorer or pick it in the Plan View.
Note: To make images selectable in the Plan View, you may need to change their Selectable property in the Advanced View Filter Settings for the view.
Add the image as a surface member using the steps in Edit a Surface by Adding and Removing Members.
In the Properties pane for the surface, set the Shading property to By surface color for each graphic view in which you want to see the image.
Click Close when you are done.

Scenarios:

If the image is not coincident with the surface, it will still appear in the Plan View when you add it as a surface member, but will not be visible in the 3D View until you make the surface and image coincident.


Partially coincident surface and image in the Plan View.	Partially coincident surface and image in the 3D View.

When a surface has a material color, texture image, and draped image applied to it, the material overrides the color and the draped image overrides the material.
If you have multiple images draped on a surface, you can control their display order by moving images forward or backward.