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Looking for this exact wood texture!

Beyondforce — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:15:55 GMT

Hi Guys,

I'm looking for this exact wood texture for Inventor (see attachment). I hope someone can tell me where can I find it. I have searched the network for so long but nothing! 😞

Thanks.

Beyongforce

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

mcgyvr — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:23:17 GMT

Google images "light wood texture" "zebra wood texture"

"striped wood texture"

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

JDMather — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:29:54 GMT

Check the links from this page http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Textures/

the noctua link usually has some good textures.

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

Beyondforce — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:30:34 GMT

I have found similar to those 2, but I can't make them look like the one in the attachment.
Maybe it's a photo of a real wood and not an Inventor wood texture.

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

LT.Rusty — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:25:47 GMT

If I had to guess, I'd say that image probably wasn't done in Inventor at all. The image pretty clearly shows plywood, and Inventor will not give you a good clean plywood effect like that without a lot of really careful, time consuming and annoying messing around. It'd be a lot quicker and simpler to get something like that out of 3DS Max instead, and that's what I suspect that the ADSK marketing types did.

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

Beyondforce — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:31:40 GMT

Rusty,

Thanks, I thought so too. I'll try to figure out something.

Thanks everyone 🙂

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

JDMather — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:38:39 GMT

@LT.Rusty wrote:
Inventor will not give you a good clean plywood effect like that without a lot of really careful, time consuming and annoying messing around.

Years ago - this used to be pretty easy in Inventor - then they changed everything and I haven't used textures since.
Never took the time to figure out the new way.

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

LT.Rusty — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:59:21 GMT

Yep.

Anymore if I need to do something like what's shown there I'll just send it over to Showcase. Designate the front and back of the wood as one texture, designate the edges as another, then do it all with GIMP and Showcase.

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

mflayler — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:41:59 GMT

cgtextures.com is a pretty good place to look for these too.

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

Beyondforce — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:50:35 GMT

Hi Mark_Flayer,

Thanks, I know this website. But I think LT.Rusty is right. The best way for me to get the texture to work, is by using Showcast. Inventor is too complicated in regards to adding new textures and the result is not good enough.

I have found some textures, we'll see if I can make it work.

Thanks 🙂

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

mpatchus — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:36:12 GMT

Take a look at Wood Workshop from Sprial Graphics.

http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm

I've used it to create many seamless wood textures for Inventor 2012.

We haven't advanced beyond 2012, so I don't know if it as useful for later releases of Inventor.

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

-niels- — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 06:50:56 GMT

Not sure if that exact texture is in there, or if the directory is available since it might be part of the suite install, but see if you have this directory:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\Materials\Textures\3\Mats

There's a lot of nice textures in there, directory "3" seems to hold the "high res" versions.

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

Beyondforce — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:50:37 GMT

Hi mpatchus,

Interesting program, I'll check it out.

Thanks 🙂

Re: Looking for this exact wood texture!

Beyondforce — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:51:49 GMT

Hi niels,

I have checked this directory, but I couldn't find what I was looking for.

Thanks.