You can add an optional image underlay to the bird's eye view to help you position objects more accurately. You can either automatically load an aerial photograph of an address from Bing Maps, or load your own image from a different source.
Changing or removing the image underlay does not affect scene objects or the shade analysis -- its only purpose is to give you a visual reference for positioning objects in the scene.
Load an aerial image from Bing Maps
1.Click Location.
2.Type a street address for Address and click Lookup address,
or
type a latitude, longitude, and time zone and click Update map from coordinates.
If an image is available from Bing Maps for that location, the image along with its scale in meters per 100 pixels will appear. (The calculator uses the Bing Maps API for the image because it provides information about the image scale.)
Load an image from another source
2.Click Load image and open the image file, or click Paste image to load an image from your computer's clipboard.
3.Type the image scale. (You can use image editing software to estimate the number of meters per 100 pixels.)
Set the scale for the image underlay by hand
1.Click Manual scale.
2.Type a value for the number of meters represented by each 100 pixels in the image. The scale bar at the top left corner of the image indicates the length of 100 pixels.
Use the loaded image as an underlay in the bird's eye view
1.Load a map image using one of the two methods described above.
2.Click Underlay this map in the scene.
The view will switch to the bird's eye view with the image as an underlay.
Remove an image underlay
1.Click Location.
2.Click Remove underlay in scene.
The view will switch to the bird's eye view with no underlay. The image remains loaded and available to use until you load a different image.
