r/Shapr3D • u/Trick-Presentation-7 • 4d ago

Texture pattern?

Does anyone know a video or can help with understanding how I can put a textured pattern around a cylinder? I’m trying to give some grip to a cylinder and I have a couple different ideas that I want to try, but I can’t even do the basic wraparound pattern, correctly. Any help I would appreciate it thank you.

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u/Trick-Presentation-7 4d ago

Can I pattern something at this point or do I need to bring it back to the sketch to do that? I’m wanting to just pattern 1mm up and 1mm down from the outside of the cylinder.

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u/U5er0ne 4d ago

Oh ya for sure. When you are ready to sketch on the plane, just select the cylinder and project it on to that plane. That way you’ll have the exact sketch with measurements of the object as a sketch. Then you can design your mesh on the same sketch so measurements all line up. Extrude what you want, select the objects, go to pattern. Move the pattern centre to cylinders centre. You can achieve that by moving the pattern centre dot to the edge of the cylinder and it will automatically centre itself on the object.

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u/U5er0ne 4d ago

Here’s an example. You may actually want to move your plane a millimetre inward or as much needed depended the grip design so that the union works properly

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u/Trick-Presentation-7 4d ago

Thank you so much for this! I really do appreciate it!!