sheet metal & texture

It would appear with SW2005 (at least) and SP1.1 & 3.0 (at least) that sheet
metal and textures don't play well together. If you have a formed piece of
diamond plate in which you applied the texture to only one side of the
material , as is in real life, then when you unfold it, the texture gets
screwy.

If you apply the texture to the body, it appears to work ok.

Here is a simple test procedure. Create a sheet metal part with one bend.
Apply a texture to the outside 3 faces (leg 1, bend, leg 2). Looks fine.
Then flatten it and reform it. The texture comes back on only one of the
faces and it appears to be the first one selected when applying the texture.

I think at least part of the issue is that a sheet metal part changes
between the flat and formed version in that the formed state has 3 faces,
and the flat becomes one face instead of the 3.

We see similar results on another machine with a different SP, but also a
different graphics card. Anyone else seeing the same stuff?

WT

 

Wayne,

As an alternative, you might want to consider just adding a hatch pattern to
your part in drawings. I use this, and other hatch patterns pretty
frequently.

Here is the hatch pattern "code" for Diamond Plate that I found on the web.
Add it to the end of your SldWks.ptn file which is located in the
SolidWorks\lang\english\ folder.

*:074iamond Plate, Diamond plate stair tread TIP467 (c)1989 Robert L.
Zipprich
0, 0,0, 0.0625,0.0625, 0.0625,-0.0625
90, 0.03125,0.03125, 0.0625,0.0625, 0.0625,-0.0625

Best regards,

CG

 

Thanks. We tried it a bit and it might help. Certainly not as effective as
the real thing working properly, but might be better than nothing.

WT