Onshape Free - I can choose materials but can't see them on my parts.

brian_carabee

Onshape free appears to be a pretty good CAD program, but I'm curious about materials. When I assign a material, I don't see any change in the part's appearance. I understand that the Render Studio is not included with the free version, but if I assign a "wood" material (for example), shouldn't I see at least some change in the appearance of the part?

No matter how I assign materials, the part's appearance never seems to change.

Thanks for any help.

NeilCooke

Thanks @brian_carabee hopefully we are better then "pretty good" Materials only set density - to change the part's colour, right-click and select appearance.

NeilCooke

Thanks @brian_carabee hopefully we are better then "pretty good" Materials only set density - to change the part's colour, right-click and select appearance.

brian_carabee

Thanks, @NeilCooke
Does that mean that we can't render with a texture, say wood grain for example? Although it's pretty much just an aesthetic, it's nice to be able to view a creation with some degree of realistic textures in order to visualize what the assembly would look like in real life.

S1mon

With Render Studio, yes you can do wood grain to your heart’s content. It’s only for Pro and Enterprise accounts.

wayne_sauder

@brian_carabee
Check this thread, https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/12844/wood-grain-texture-custom-feature
And this one https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/16576/texture-new-custom-feature

NeilCooke

This forum is awesome - thanks @wayne_sauder for saving me a job!