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Can you help me model/display this fabric?

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maxh3

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Dec 10, 2010
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I'm modeling a beach chair and I'd like to show it with the below fabric on it. I've used surfaces to model the fabric and I've assigned appearances/textures from the solidworks included samples (grey cotton looks best so far) but I don't know how to edit a custom texture to make it look right.


I tried editing the appearances, selecting advanced, choosing the jpg of the fabric, saving as a p2m, then selecting it. Below is what I get; it just doesn't look right:

 
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you probably have to apply these by the face on the bottom surfaces. Have you used mapping to make sure your using the correct type of surface?
 
What do you mean? What's mapping?

I don't understand how one half of the seat part displays the image correctly and the other half is blurred into lines.
 
I made the back and foot-rest flat instead of curved and formed the surface by extruding a straight line up to next, and the texture works properly. For the contoured ones I'd used a boundary surface. So is there something about the way Solidworks calculates boundary surfaces that makes them not accept textures properly?
 
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