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Custom appearance rotated?

jesABL6L — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:13:53 GMT

Hi all.. sorry if this has been answered elsewhere!

I am new to F360, just experimenting. I have modelled a simple bungalow, and have created a custom brickwork appearance by importing a jpeg photo. With a bit of scaling, this works well, but with one problem. I drag the appearance to a face, perfect. I drag the same appearance to an adjacent face, which is on a plane slightly recessed from the first, and the appearance is rotated 90 degrees - and vertical bricks just look silly! Any clues?

Thanks! Jes

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

dsouzasujay — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:33:13 GMT

Hi @jesABL6L,

I was not able to understand exactly how the appearance looks.

Can you please attach a image, if possible export *.f3d file?

To adjust the appearance, You need to select the body, right click and select the Texture Map controls. They will allow you to modify the orientation of the texture.

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

jesABL6L — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:00:38 GMT

I have attached the original jpg which I used, and a screengrab of the result when I drag and drop to the body. It happens the same when I drag to faces instead, which would suggest maybe it's to do with the properties of the faces. The body was constructed from two simple 'barn shapes' which I combined in a sort of T-shape, if that's a clue... I will try to figure out how to export the f3d file. Thanks for your help!

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

dsouzasujay — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:57:48 GMT

Hi @jesABL6L ,

Did you try 'Texture Map Controls' for the body?

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

jesABL6L — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:31:51 GMT

Hello again... eventually found the 'Texture Map Controls', it was by default set to 'Projection Type: Automatic; changing to 'Planar' and playing around with the axes basically just corrupts the appearance display (changes to just horizontal lines).

What I can't understand is, why does it not apply the appearance in the same orientation to faces on the same body? Note:- what I have realised is, the faces of one 'barn shape' are correct, the other 'barn shape' is rotated, even though they are combined into one body. Head scratching continues...

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

g-andresen — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:44:55 GMT

Hi,

Edit Face Appearance

günther

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

jesABL6L — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:07:42 GMT

Thank you Guenther.... tried that, but it reverses the problem; in other words, the faces that were correct are now rotated, the faces that were rotated are now correct...!

It seems that F360 is applying the appearance consistently (it thinks), but is seeing the actual faces as being in a different orientation for some reason.

I can't understand why, as the two bodies were made via sketch > extrude, sketch > extrude, then combine > join; then shelling the resulting one body. The appearance is applied to that one body.

I am thinking now that I must have gone back and edited a sketch at some point, which has caused the software to become confused. I will go back and start from scratch to see if it is repeatable.

Thanks for your help !

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

dsouzasujay — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:44:18 GMT

Hi @jesABL6L,

Can you please the *.f3d you have created.

It will help us understand.

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

g-andresen — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:59:13 GMT

Hi,

My illustration assumes that the textures have been assigned to surfaces.
They can then be changed individually.
But for each direction a separate appearance must be created.

Screencast

günther

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

jesABL6L — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:55:48 GMT

f3d file as requested...

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

jesABL6L — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:05:12 GMT

Thank you Guenther, that is informative, the screencast is very useful. Did you make it in F360?

Sorry if I'm being stupid here, I have only been using F360 for a day or so. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon!

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

g-andresen — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:12:27 GMT

Hi,

just download from here install it and create your first screencast

günther

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

dsouzasujay — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:13:37 GMT

Hi @jesABL6L,

You should change the 'Texture Map Controls', with

UV Diagnostic Texture
Box

Later by applying the appearance you should get the texture

Re: Custom appearance rotated?

jesABL6L — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:21:17 GMT

Excellent, that is much appreciated, thank you!