Can you offset a texture

[Designer_Mike]

Is there any way to offset an texture on a part. I have made a texture of a custom PLC screen and applied it to the face of the PLC model. I was able to rotate it and scale it properly, but the upper left corner of my texture appear in the center of the part. I understand that it tiles the textures to fit, but I want to shift it about 50 pixels left and up? Should I create a new texture with the shifted bitmap, or is there a way to shif it in Inventor? I was going to try to put another part feature on the model and then supress it to trick IV, but I don't know where it begins the tileing process.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Mike

Could you do what you want with the Decal tool?

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"Designer_Mike" wrote in message
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> Is there any way to offset an texture on a part. I have made a texture of
a custom PLC screen and applied it to the face of the PLC model. I was able
to rotate it and scale it properly, but the upper left corner of my texture
appear in the center of the part. I understand that it tiles the textures to
fit, but I want to shift it about 50 pixels left and up? Should I create a
new texture with the shifted bitmap, or is there a way to shif it in
Inventor? I was going to try to put another part feature on the model and
then supress it to trick IV, but I don't know where it begins the tileing
process.
> Thanks
>

[Designer_Mike]

Didn't know about the decal tool....I bet that will work better. I'll update you tommorrow, but it looks like it should work exactly like I want.

Thanks again