Camera Match

[beanus]

are there any videos showing how to use the camera match tool. I'm trying to add a simple 3d Vectorworks drawing of a gate to a photo. I've sent the attached photo to the client to let me have these dimensions, will these be enough? Any help would be greatly appreciated

required dimensions.pdf

[Tom W.]

See this thread re the best type of photos for use with Camera Match:

You might want to try a different photo slightly shifted to one side or the other.

 

This video is good:

Plus Jonathan Pickup has some good stuff on the subject.

 

[Domas]

Hello! 

I find this video really helpful when doing a camera match. I'm sure everyone might have seen this at one point who are looking into the subject. This video helped me understand and set up a bunch of camera match cases. 
 

 

[Alina Papp]

Hello, 

 

I am trying to 3d model something from a photo that is at an angle. Is there anyway to camera match a view? At the moment it does it on the viewport but I dont know how to model from there. Is there anyway I can go into a viewports view settings exactly on the model itself? 

 

I hope it is not confusing what I am trying to ask. It is basically is there anyway to do the same thing that the camera match does in a viewport to just an actual saved view so that I can model in perspective?

 

Thank you

 

Alina

[Matt Panzer]

On 11/17/2025 at 8:52 AM, Alina Papp said:

Hello, 

 

I am trying to 3d model something from a photo that is at an angle. Is there anyway to camera match a view? At the moment it does it on the viewport but I dont know how to model from there. Is there anyway I can go into a viewports view settings exactly on the model itself? 

 

I hope it is not confusing what I am trying to ask. It is basically is there anyway to do the same thing that the camera match does in a viewport to just an actual saved view so that I can model in perspective?

 

Thank you

 

Alina

 

Hello @Alina Papp,  There is no good way to do this, unfortunately.

[Alina Papp]

Hello Matt, 

 

Thank you for your answer. In the meantime I found a suggestion of placing a camera in the viewport that then can take me to the view of the viewport so I have tried to model that way. I then saved it as a view. Now I just have to figure out how to be able to add the photo on the design layer, in the work plane of the view,  not as a screen layer. But I feel there must be a way to achieve this.  Will keep searching. 

 

 

[Matt Panzer]

5 hours ago, Alina Papp said:

Hello Matt, 

 

Thank you for your answer. In the meantime I found a suggestion of placing a camera in the viewport that then can take me to the view of the viewport so I have tried to model that way. I then saved it as a view. Now I just have to figure out how to be able to add the photo on the design layer, in the work plane of the view,  not as a screen layer. But I feel there must be a way to achieve this.  Will keep searching. 

 

The only other possible (hacky / use at you're own risk) thing you could try is to copy the Camera Match object in the viewport's annotations, paste it in the design layer, click the "Fine Tune View…" button and cancel out of the Fine Tune View dialog (this will restore the view in the design layers to match the viewport).  This is an unsupported workflow and I'm not sure you'll be able to get the photo image in the Camera Match object or the Renderworks Background to line up properly with the model.  Like I said, this is not a supported workflow so no promises this will get you anywhere.

[Alina Papp]

On 11/20/2025 at 5:19 PM, Matt Panzer said:

 

The only other possible (hacky / use at you're own risk) thing you could try is to copy the Camera Match object in the viewport's annotations, paste it in the design layer, click the "Fine Tune View…" button and cancel out of the Fine Tune View dialog (this will restore the view in the design layers to match the viewport).  This is an unsupported workflow and I'm not sure you'll be able to get the photo image in the Camera Match object or the Renderworks Background to line up properly with the model.  Like I said, this is not a supported workflow so no promises this will get you anywhere.

Thank you for your response. I will try it with caution 🙂. I might set up a couple of test files where I actually know the measurements and can test the accuracy. Once that is done will let you know if it worked. Thank you.