PhotoWorks Wood Endgrain 1

[LesPaul82]

I'm doing a layout for Sales where I need to show a machine cutting logs. I built a log and applied a wood material to it but when rendering I can't get the end of the log to look like it is supposed to. I know I've done this before but I can't at all remember how.

Thanks in advance.

Sean
Carmanah Design and Manufacturing
Vancouver, BC, Canada

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[ctopher]

Above your feature tree is the Photoworks tab.
Open, select 'Appearances', then right-click on the material, then select 'edit'.

Go to 'mapping' and scroll down to mapping control to change the look of the grain.

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[LesPaul82]

Yeah I was playing around with the properties but now I finally got it. Turns out the magic combination was 'Spherical' and rotating the sphere by 90deg on both axis.

Thanks.

Sean
Carmanah Design and Manufacturing
Vancouver, BC, Canada

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[LesPaul82]

OK maybe I got too far ahead of myself. It looked like I wanted when regularly working in SolidWorks but once I rendered, it completely changed. I've attached two images of what I'm trying to achieve and what I'm getting.

This is what I want:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/SNutley/good.jpg

This is what I get:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/SNutley/bad.jpg

Sean
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Vancouver, BC, Canada

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[Theophilus]

That's certainly odd. Are both applied within PhotoWorks (and not a SolidWorks material for RealView or something)? Which version of SolidWorks are you using?



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[rockguy]

You'll have to map these in PhotoWorks for them to render correctly. It's common for "what you see" in RealView to be different than "what you see" in Photoworks.

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[LesPaul82]

I'm using Solidworks 2008. I've applied the material by right-clicking the part in an assembly, selecting "Appearance Callout" and selecting the box next to the part symbol.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/SNutley/matl.jpg

From there I go to Advanced Mapping options and select 'spherical' and rotate as shown in the pic.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/SNutley/matl2.jpg

Is this how you map them in Photoworks? I have Realview graphics turned on.

THanks.

Sean
Carmanah Design and Manufacturing
Vancouver, BC, Canada

http://www.carmanahdesign.com

 

[Theophilus]

Uhh--I'm not running v2008, so this may have changed. If it hasn't changed, then, no--that's not how to do it. Those are SolidWorks-based materials. Confused yet? Yeah, this is a long-standing problem with the interface, and SolidWorks has not yet gotten it right--further that with PV360 in v2009, although they did integrate/change some of the appearance stuff with that.

Show your PhotoWorks toolbar, and then hit the Materials button when in the context of your part (not in the assembly) after you've selected your end surface. You'll see several tabs which can be selected toward the top (again, if they didn't change this in v2008) and you'll want to establish your materials in this interface for PhotoWorks materials.

The top Mapping tab is where you'll control things similar to how you did it in the RealView interface. You'll also want to apply the side-grain finish to the whole part as you did before, keeping in mind the end-grain is applied only to your end surfaces.



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