Importing Arroway textures

Arroway textures are high-quality, high-resolution, image-based textures available from arroway-textures.com. Low-resolution image-based textures from Arroway are available as default content. A selected texture is automatically imported into the current file and displays in the Resource Manager. Arroway textures are easily identified because they contain "Arroway" in the texture name.

If your file contains low-resolution Arroway textures and you want to update them to their high-resolution equivalents, or if you have purchased high-resolution Arroway textures and would like to use them in a Vectorworks file, the Import Arroway Textures command accomplishes this automatically. This command is not available by default, but must be added to the workspace.

To update low-resolution Arroway textures or import new Arroway textures:

Purchase the required high-resolution textures from Arroway and place them in a folder. Organize the purchased textures so that the ones to be imported or updated are contained in a folder, and optionally in subfolders.

Add the Import Arroway Textures command to a new or existing workspace (see Modifying commands and tools in a workspace). The command can be found among the Import/Export items on the Menus tab of the Workspace Editor.

Select Import Arroway Textures from the custom location in the workspace.

The Import Arroway Textures dialog box opens.

Click to show/hide the parameters.Click to show/hide the parameters.

Set the parameters and click Import.

The Import Arroway Textures Folder dialog box opens.

Select the folder containing the high-resolution Arroway textures you have purchased.

Using several very large images may affect performance.

Click Select Folder to import or upgrade the Arroway textures from the selected folder and any subfolders. Renderworks textures are automatically created or updated in the current file.