Texture (color)

Assign a texture to a surface color in the Surface settings for selected color palette. The texture covers the material, hiding its color. You can use any bitmap as a texture.

Select the texture in one of the following ways:

Click the Texture button and select a texture in the palette.
Click and select a texture in the Open File dialog box.
Click to switch off textures.

For example, you can scan pictures of wood or carpets and save these files in a common format. You can select these bitmap files from any path by clicking in the Open File dialog box. Allplan automatically copies these files to the ...\std\design folder.

Note: The program saves custom surfaces (and bitmap areas) in the project in which they are used. This ensures that all the settings of a project are available after it has been imported or exported. All surf files and the associated texture files used are copied to the project folder (”design\” subfolder) and then read from there.