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The way to do that in SOLIDWORKS is to use Advanced Face 'Appearances': jpg (taken from my phone) onto the wide face of our electronics 'display': Now we're going to apply that GPS direction. Thanks to GrabCAD Community member Brandon Norris for his awesome handheld GPS device found here, which I'm borrowing for this tutorial:īringing that into SOLIDWORKS, I split the model into separate BODIES using the Split command, since the more bodies you have, the more options you have to easily color files later in GrabCAD Print:Īfter that, it's simple to apply body colors, until you're here:
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To get around this, we used to have to use a bunch of 3rd party programs, like Photoshop, to apply textures for color printing:Īnd if things got REALLY complex (multi-bodies, transparencies), I used to use Rhino:īut I'm happy to say that with the recent release of GrabCAD Print 1.40, there's now a much simpler and more direct path to get textured files out of SOLIDWORKS, the 3MF format:
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#Solidworks texture files series
Over two years ago, I wrote a series of color printing tutorials, mainly because of the difficulty in getting color textures out of SOLIDWORKS files:ĭecals didn't come out, face textures didn't come out, all you got out of SOLIDWORKS were overall body colors. An updated tutorial, showing you the BEST way to export your color SOLIDWORKS files for 3D printing, using the new '3MF' format!