UV Texture Mapping from within SolidWorks

UV Texture Mapping from within SolidWorks#309884

By purCAB - Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:01 pm

- Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:01 pm #309884

JD --

Last question...for today.

It looks like there is no control of the UV mapping from within SW. Anytime that I try to use SW's Appearance to get to the Mapping tab, it removes the material that was assigned by the plugin. The plugin has texture rotation and sizing, but not mapping type (e.g. cubic, cylindrical, spherical, etc.) I assume then that if it is necessary to tweak the mappings, that we will need to go to Studio to do that?

Ken

Re: UV Texture Mapping from within SolidWorks#309889

By JDHill - Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:20 pm

- Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:20 pm #309889

Yes, you still need to use Studio for that. I have been saying forever that I will get support for the SW2008+ texture mappings sorted out, but as of yet I still have not been able to get something that works consistently.

Next Limit Team

Re: UV Texture Mapping from within SolidWorks#319641

By bjorn.syse - Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:41 pm

- Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:41 pm #319641

Hi, I'm using SolidWorks 2007 and Maxwell 2.0 with the latest platform,. this is kind of a new environment for me. Is this still the case, that I have to use Studio to control the texture projections?

Regards,

- Björn

industrial design and visualization (http://www.syse.se)

Re: UV Texture Mapping from within SolidWorks#319649

By JDHill - Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:09 pm

- Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:09 pm #319649

Pretty much, yes. SW 2007 doesn't have any projection capability; you have a scale (not x/y, just scale) and a rotation, and in both cases, you do not decide the origin of the transformation.

Next Limit Team

Re: UV Texture Mapping from within SolidWorks#319650

By bjorn.syse - Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:11 pm

- Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:11 pm #319650

Ok, thanks for information. Do you know if this all is possible if we upgrade to SW 2010?

industrial design and visualization (http://www.syse.se)

Re: UV Texture Mapping from within SolidWorks#319651

By JDHill - Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:27 pm

- Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:27 pm #319651

Not currently; SW 2010 does have some rudimentary projection capability, but I have not (as I was discussing in this thread) yet found a way of resolving how it works with how the plugin is currently implemented. Just my opinion, but the capability they added is not very good, to the point where I would still prefer to texture in Studio (or Rhino, since you have that).

Next Limit Team