manumzo Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Hi everyone, I 'm trying to make a can of coca-cola in autocad 2013 but i can't. The texture never fit right on the model. How can i apply the texture correctly to make the can. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 This sounds like one of those tasks better to suited to 3ds Max or Blender. You know, the right tool for the right job sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manumzo Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Thanks for the answer. I know i can do it better with 3dsmax but I want to do this in autocad. The tools exist. but the result is not right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 When you did your material mapping you selected Cylindrical? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Take a look at this tutorial: http://www.we-r-here.com/cad/tutorials/level_3/3-13.htm If you need more control over your UV mapping, I would take ReMark's advice and download Blender. It's free. Successful texturing relies on the ability to accurately map UVW coordinates to the faces of your model. Autocad has never had this capability, unless it was added after 2011? That was the last version that I used. Autocad uses very simple mapping techniques such as box, planar, cylindrical, etc., as mentioned in the tutorial linked above. You can export your Autocad model to .stl format and then import to Blender. Or you might try this script to import .dxf files. (I have not tried this myself): http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/DXF_Importer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manumzo Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Yes i did, as you can see on the screenshot. I tried several things. None is working. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I really don't see what. Thanks again for you help ReMark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I'd follow Cad64's advice if I were you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manumzo Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Thanks cad64. I use 3dsmax usually to render objects but I haven't it in the company where I work. I only have Autocad 2013. And I'm not trying to make a beautiful rendering, i just want to show a can properly labelled. I think it's not possible to make this simple object in Autocad, strange ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Maybe this YouTube video will help: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manumzo Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 I already saw this Youtube vidéo. The guy do it on Autocad 2010. I read somewhere that you can't do it anymore since 2011 version ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I don't see anything in that video using 2010 that you could not do in 2013. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I didn't watch the video, but I also recommend looking into the solidedit>imprint command to split faces. When I used to use AutoCAD that is how I would define areas of a part for images/textures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manumzo Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Well, when I select "cylinder mapping" like him in the video (at 2.30) i have that : And it's worst ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 No, you basically got the same results David Cohen did when he first applied the coconut milk label to his 3D can. Did you totally space on how he went about rectifying the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Did you try adjusting your tiling and scaling, like he did in the video at 2:02? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manumzo Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Did you try adjusting your tiling and scaling, like he did in the video at 2:02? This feature doesn't exist anymore ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manumzo Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 No, you basically got the same results David Cohen did when he first applied the coconut milk label to his 3D can. Did you totally space on how he went about rectifying the problem? In fact when he select "cylinder mapping" everything takes place just right. The label of the coconut milk fit perfectly to the can. For me it's the opposite, everything goes wrong... There is not many parameters to rectify the problem but I'm sure there is a way to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Sure they do. Under Scaling there is Sample Size > Width and Height. Under Repeat there is Horizontal and Vertical (the defaults for both are Tile). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 One of us needs a new pair of glasses and it ain't me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manumzo Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Sure they do. Under Scaling there is Sample Size > Width and Height. Under Repeat there is Horizontal and Vertical (the defaults for both are Tile). I tried all the possibilities ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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