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Bring in a reference image, pinned by two points.
Menu: File > Import Image | In depth: Reference images
Brings a picture onto the canvas as reference, pinned by two draggable points.
Dragging either point scales and rotates the image together, which is how you line a photograph or a scan up with the geometry you are building on top of it.
The image is reference only. It is not geometry, nothing snaps to it, and it is not part of the construction.
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