🚨Custom Feature Alert 🚨: Displacement Maps in Onshape

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• EvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 2,864 PRO

  January 13

  Thanks, Kyle! Sorry I called your code AI generated haha. I'll mull over the tiling idea because it is certainly interesting to me. If I add it I'd have to add a way to mirror every other one so they can be seamless too.

  Evan Reese
  The Onsherpa | Reach peak Onshape productivity
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• jason_ryan337 Member Posts: 71 ✭

  January 15

  Hi Evan and all. I posted this in a new thread before finding this one so may the mod team can delete that post :-).

  I am trying to use the new feature, and am struggling with a couple of things. My goal was to make a curve surface, then add a displacement map onto the front of the surface and then close up the two surfaces to make a solid. However,

  1. When I add a map to a curved surface, the mapped surface seems to always go behind the original surface instead of in front so it will make it tricky for me to close the surface since i want to build on the other side of the surface.
  2. If I did get the displacement map on the correct side, I am still not sure I know how to close up the surface to make a true lithophane type solid.

  

  Here is my document. I would really appreciate any guidance. Thanks!

  https://cad.onshape.com/documents/df3186e1295f998e0a7934c4/w/7a3f552f3516dcba3e2b8308/e/c0dd6be7b36e0ca13d8e86da

  FWIW - I feeling now that this maybe isn't the best use for the tool so I am painfully trying to figure out how to do some of this in blender (crying, lol)….

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• EvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 2,864 PRO

  January 15

  Makes sense. I'd do it in this order:

  1. Create surface
  2. Thicken surface to make a solid
  3. Displacement map - if it's going the wrong way you can swap the black and white values, and play with the mirroring and rotation.
  4. Replace face on the already thickened solid body (you can try the replace face option in the Displacement feature too)

  Evan Reese
  The Onsherpa | Reach peak Onshape productivity
  www.theonsherpa.com

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