Rhino Tip O' The Day: Static Background Image

Today Bureau member and friend, Ricky Hele, IM'd me with a Rhino question that I decided to turn into a realtime tutorial. This tutorial will set a background image for you to align your model against to get the same view. Then you can render your model and composite it with the original photo in Photoshop.

That alignment is good enough for now, if I only needed the back wall with the "Anonymous" banner. Hope it helps.

As always, email me with any Rhino Tips you would like to see, or just instant message me as I suppose you all have my screen name now.

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Permalink Reply by Gemma Lopez on September 9, 2008 at 12:38pm: Thanks for this tip! its tight!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dustin on October 1, 2008 at 4:25pm: On a side note, how many different ways can you "XREF" an image into rhino? Is there one that mimics the AutoCAD function? I'd like the image to be scaled and pan with the drawing... Thanks!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jason King on October 1, 2008 at 9:03pm: The best way is the command "pictureframe".

Dustin said:
On a side note, how many different ways can you "XREF" an image into rhino? Is there one that mimics the AutoCAD function? I'd like the image to be scaled and pan with the drawing... Thanks!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dustin on October 2, 2008 at 9:16pm: I think i tried pictureframe before, but I was so frustrated that it only showed the picture while in rendered view. Is there a way to view the picture AND the lines you are drawing at the same time?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jason King on October 2, 2008 at 9:20pm: Pictureframe DOES show the lines and the image at the same time. That is how I trace things every day. Try it again and message me if it doesn't work. It may be something in your settings.

Dustin said:
I think i tried pictureframe before, but I was so frustrated that it only showed the picture while in rendered view. Is there a way to view the picture AND the lines you are drawing at the same time?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dustin on October 3, 2008 at 6:30am: It shows the lines while you trace, but as soon as you finish the line, it disappears until you switch to wireframe or shaded view. Frustrating when you trace something with multiple lines or layers...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jason King on October 3, 2008 at 10:52am: Something is wrong with your settings.

Dustin said:
It shows the lines while you trace, but as soon as you finish the line, it disappears until you switch to wireframe or shaded view. Frustrating when you trace something with multiple lines or layers...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Joseph Nunez on October 10, 2008 at 1:26pm: Hey Dustin,

to fix this, I think, but I'm pretty sure do the following: options>Render>miscellaneous and make sure the box for Render Curves and Isocurves is checked. Uncheck when you're finished or ready to do a final render.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jason King on October 10, 2008 at 3:53pm: Nope. You shouldn't have to do anything except have the current Service Releases. I think SR3 fixed this.

Joseph Nunez said:
Hey Dustin,

to fix this, I think, but I'm pretty sure do the following: options>Render>miscellaneous and make sure the box for Render Curves and Isocurves is checked. Uncheck when you're finished or ready to do a final render.; ▶ Reply to This