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Pastes the contents of the Windows clipboard into Alias either as a new canvas plane (if the active view doesn’t contain a canvas plane) or as a new canvas layer (if the active view contains a canvas plane).

Note

The contents of the clipboard are pasted into an existing canvas plane either into the center of the selection mask (if there is one) or into the center of the canvas plane (if there is no selection mask).

Note

Alias will automatically clear the selection mask when you choose Edit > Paste image.

Paste Image Options

Display Mode

RGB – Shows a color preview of the image.

Box – Shows only an outline for faster display.

Depth Type

Determines which image planes appear in front of which, and whether they are behind or in front of the wireframe model. This setting is Off or Priority.

When set to Priority, a Depth slider is also displayed, which determines the layering order of the image planes.

Image planes and the model are drawn in the following order, from back to front:

  • Image planes with Depth Type set to Off
  • Image planes with Depth Type set to Priority and Depth of 0.0 or less, from lowest to highest depth.
  • The wireframe model
  • Image planes with Depth Type set to Priority and Depth greater than 0.0, from lowest to highest depth.

Hence, an image plane with depth greater than 0.0 appears in front of the model, whereas other image planes appear behind the model. Depth drawing is in sorted order so an image plane with a depth of 2.0 appears behind an image plane with a depth of 3.0, and an image plane of depth -3.0 appears behind an image plane of depth -2.0.

Crop to Window

Crop the image to fit in the current window.

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