Autodesk CIVIL3D - CIVILDESIGNCOMP 2007 SLM CD Tutorials Manual page 137

Drape the image on the surface
1 Click Surface tab
2 In the Drape Image dialog box, select the following information from
the Image and Surface lists. All the images and surfaces available in the
current drawing appear in the lists. Alternatively, you can click to pick
the image or surface directly in the drawing window.
Image: SurXXX
Surface: Aerial Mapping
NOTE The image name is automatically generated when it is imported into
AutoCAD Civil 3D. Your image name and render material name may differ
from the names that are shown in this tutorial.
The Render Material Name field is populated with an automatically
generated name (Aerial Mapping_SurXXX_RenderMaterial). You can
change this name as desired, but accept the default for this exercise.
3 Click OK.
The image is draped on the surface, but it is not evident in plan view.
Next, you will hide the image, and then view the surface in model view.
4 In the drawing window, select the image. Right-click. Click Isolate
Objects Hide Selected Objects.
NOTE To make the image reappear, right-click in the drawing area and click
Isolate Objects End Object Isolation.
5 Click View tab Views panel
This selection specifies an appropriate angle at which to view the surface
in 3D.
6 On the command line, enter Zoom. When prompted, enter O to select
an object.
7 When prompted to select an object, in the drawing window, click the
surface. Press Enter to accept the selection.
Surface Tools panel Drape Image
views list
Exercise 3: Draping an Image on a Surface | 125
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SE Isometric.