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Wood grain texture Custom Feature


Often when modeling furniture and other objects created from wood I want to communicate the orientation of the wood grain on a part. This eliminates confusion when creating the parts in the workshop. To solve this I created a Wood grain texture custom feature! This low resolution feature is intended to demonstrate the overall grain direction without degrading performance with too much detail.

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https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f5cd9f4b2ec8e9eea7266f1e/v/59e3340e9e7ef9d664172a84/e/595af5842cd8801d37dc3da5

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Tim Rice | User Experience | Support
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Would have been easier if y'all would add colored faces/textures
Check it out!
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f5cd9f4b2ec8e9eea7266f1e/v/37c68c0d9ae053e9f22e23b6/e/595af5842cd8801d37dc3da5
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This is probably the most well made custom feature I have used.
I only ran into a few issues.
The grain "sketch" was not large enough for large parts and would only put grain on a portion of the part. - (Consider having the sketch stretch to fit the selected part)
The grain was not dense enough to see easily on small parts. - (Consider adding the option to have more or less dense grain)
Again, very nice feature!
@david_mcmahon Thanks I will add some info on setting the origin in the FS doc.
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I was attempting to use the feature to show that there will be grain on these portions of the cabinet when viewed from the side for architectural drawings. The grain was not large enough to fit on all of the portions. I tried using the linear pattern and switching the grain up, but it would not come out quite right. I think being able to select how close together the grain is and to be able to pick any size of part, will be useful.
Great, thank you for the example! In this case I would imagine you would need to apply an individual feature for each major part. Then you can use a Feature linear pattern with Apply per instance workflow that I mentioned above. You can control the interval between pattern instances to get a repeating end grain across the given part. The trick here is to offset the origin so only a portion of the grain pattern fits on the part:
I also can see the need to control the overall scale of the pattern. I will work towards adding this in the future!
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Added a scale input and instructional PDF in V1.2.3! Just update the reference in your toolbar to get the latest features!
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Thank you!
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First you can add it to your toolbar:
and then apply it to entire parts:
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If anyone needs a 3D printable Desktop monitor stand/riser quick and dirty model, but should work fine.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8f1c02b49f744604f6da68c5/w/e1a6bb0fb9cf01d0a2238898/e/a9cca57a6d711aaac1ae0b3e