topic Betreff: Creating 3D Texture material (Plywood) in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Creating 3D Texture material (Plywood)

tom.frankee1991 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:20:04 GMT

i would like to know how i can create a realistic 3D Texture Material such as the fusion 3D Wood Materials, but for plywood! I have already tried to import the appearance of the edges (stripes) as an image. Mainly, I am focused on the striped appearance of the edges because I use it to create patterns during milling. I would like to know in advance how the patterns will look, but for that, I need 3D ply wood. So with which software i can actually create those 3D wooden texture?

Re: Creating 3D Texture material (Plywood)

TrippyLighting — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:26:45 GMT

I would actually model this. Create the plywood component. Then split the solid body in that component into separate bodies for each of the layers. Then assign a different wood texture from the solid wood appearances.
You can rotate the textures with the texture map controls.

It can be tedious work, but this allows you a much more accurate visualization of the post-milled look than applying image textures to every edge face.

Betreff: Creating 3D Texture material (Plywood)

tom.frankee1991 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:02:12 GMT

Hi Peter

thank you for the fast respond. I already did that with small objects . But when i have bigger boards or objects, Fusion is close to collapse when i start to move or modify it. Find attached a screenshot of a chopping board from underneath, which consist of many single body layers. Its not about the work, its just too much for fusion or my computer.
There must be a way to create the same 3D Texture for plywood as it is already existing for solid timbers.

Betreff: Creating 3D Texture material (Plywood)

TrippyLighting — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:00:05 GMT

@tom.frankee1991 wrote:

There must be a way to create the same 3D Texture for plywood as it is already existing for solid timbers.

There is a way to do this.

Open the appearance panel and drag one of the image based wood textures into the upper panel.

Right-click and duplicate it and rename the duplicate to your liking.

Edit the duplicate and replace the existing image texture with your favorite plywood-edge texture.

Select the the body in the viewport and select Texture Map controls from the menu.

Change it from Automatic to Planar and select the axis of projection.

Done!

Here's one for EUR14.