{"id":457,"date":"2014-08-22T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/enhancements-in-fusion-360-make-visualizing-diverse-textures-easy\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T18:28:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:28:05","slug":"enhancements-in-fusion-360-make-visualizing-diverse-textures-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/enhancements-in-fusion-360-make-visualizing-diverse-textures-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancements in Fusion 360 Make Visualizing Diverse Textures Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several months the Fusion 360 software has made huge strides.\u00a0 The product has increased in stability, a number of additional functions have been implemented in both the modeling and sculpting environment, and the ability to showcase various textures, which is what we are going to look at here.\u00a0 In particular, our wood materials are awesome.\u00a0 We have 17 different types that include cherry, bamboo, mahogany, oak and pine.\u00a0 They all look fantastic:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/119429i17453F18EBBEEEA0\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"2.png\" width=\"787\" height=\"418\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The visualization is really useful for conveying functional information too. For instance, using \u201ccontour mapping\u201d allows you to explicitly show wood grain orientation. Right click on the body or component you want to adjust and select Texture Map Controls. Then select Planar and choose the axis you want the grain to be aligned with:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grain Aligned with Y-axis: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Grain Aligned with Z-axis:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"3.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/119431i62A1666718460F62\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"3.png\" width=\"329\" height=\"189\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"4.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/119433i162F6EB911EA4A42\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"4.png\" width=\"371\" height=\"192\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For even more fun, don\u2019t forget to try a \u201cspherical\u201d texture map!\u00a0 You\u2019ll get some really compelling and unique renderings!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"5.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/119437iBAB350C4BD1451C4\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"5.png\" width=\"773\" height=\"434\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to see some of the great textures that you have used, both wood and otherwise.\u00a0 Why not post them to the <a href=\"https:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/projects\/editor_pick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">gallery<\/a> and tell us what worked for you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Realistic Visualization.png\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/127107i9BE829192B86EE14\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Realistic Visualization.png\" \/><\/P><P>One of the most exciting improvements that have been worked on recently is the ability to improve visualization with texture mapping.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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