I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

Looked at your web page. Read your poetry.

You are obviously a darn good woodworker.

:-)


Tom Watson wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

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Will
Occasional Techno-geek

Tom,

I am a newbie to CAD so I cannot help you there but just wanted to let
you know that your projects on your website are quite impressive.

"Tom Watson" wrote in message
:

I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

"Tom Watson" wrote in message
...

I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)


Hi Tom,

I attached a rendering from TurboCad Pro V9 to a message on ABPW ... though
I doubt it will remain long with all the .RAR files being dumped there. It's
a big one ... I figured you needed plenty of detail.

I used the stock "maple" texture on a 3D piece and modified things slightly
(played with color, scaling, trunk center ... all part of the edit
properties screen).

Hope this helps,


Rick

http://inventorparts.com/Textures/mapping.html

http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Textures/index.htm

http://www.sdotson.com/tutorials.asp

Hope these help.

Stephen R.



"Tom Watson" wrote in message
...

I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

Thanks for the tips.

It looks like my basic problem was that I took the 96 x 96 pixel tile
size to be gospel, rather than a suggestion.

Having grabbed a couple of finished wood photos and tweaked them in
Photoshop to be about the size of the pieces that I wanted to apply
texture to, I'm heading in the right direction.

Now I need to scan in some samples that I make myself, using the real
wood with a real finish on it, and I should be able to tweak those
enough to work.

I've put another image of the same drawing on ABPW, using the wood
images I saved using the above technique.

Not there yet but getting there mo bettah.

Thanks again.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

Thanks, I think.


On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:17:33 -0500, Will
wrote:

Looked at your web page. Read your poetry.

You are obviously a darn good woodworker.

:-)


Tom Watson wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

Thanks.


On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:24:34 +0000, "John" wrote:

Tom,

I am a newbie to CAD so I cannot help you there but just wanted to let
you know that your projects on your website are quite impressive.

"Tom Watson" wrote in message
:

I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

Thanks.


On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 14:36:13 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:


"Tom Watson" wrote in message
.. .

I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)


Hi Tom,

I attached a rendering from TurboCad Pro V9 to a message on ABPW ... though
I doubt it will remain long with all the .RAR files being dumped there. It's
a big one ... I figured you needed plenty of detail.

I used the stock "maple" texture on a 3D piece and modified things slightly
(played with color, scaling, trunk center ... all part of the edit
properties screen).

Hope this helps,


Rick



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

They helped a lot.

Thanks.


On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:04:00 GMT, "S R" no email @ no spam.com
wrote:

http://inventorparts.com/Textures/mapping.html

http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Textures/index.htm

http://www.sdotson.com/tutorials.asp

Hope these help.

Stephen R.



"Tom Watson" wrote in message
.. .

I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)


Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

No problem.

Stephen R.

"Tom Watson" wrote in message
...
They helped a lot.

Thanks.


On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:04:00 GMT, "S R" no email @ no spam.com
wrote:

http://inventorparts.com/Textures/mapping.html

http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Textures/index.htm

http://www.sdotson.com/tutorials.asp

Hope these help.

Stephen R.



"Tom Watson" wrote in message
. ..

I'm trying to figure out how to import and use photorealistic wood
textures into a CAD program.

The problem is described, along with a picture, on ABPW.



Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)


Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)