Textures and articles

To convert existing 3D articles to another article for placement, please proceed as follows:

Overview

 

Texture exchange

To replace the texture of an existing item, please proceed as follows:

Duplicate the existing material

  1. Right-click on the material to be duplicated
  2. In the context menu that opens, select Duplicate
  3. Rename material

Export and edit the texture

In the material editor below the selected material, you will see a preview image. To the right of this is the button for exporting the texture.

  1. Click on it to open the save dialog for saving the graphic
  2. Afterwards you can edit the saved graphic in a graphics program of your choice (Photoshop, Paint.net, Gimp, etc.).
  3. When editing or exchanging the graphic, it is very important that the new graphic is in exactly the same position as the original graphic, so that it is displayed correctly later in the planning program.

Replace the graphic of the duplicated material

After you have saved the graphic in the graphics program, you can now import it.

  1. In the Material Editor click the Import revised graphic button next to the preview graphic on the right.
  2. In the dialog that opens, navigate to your revised graphic and then click Open.

Replacing the graphic on the article

  1. Select the 3D object in your drawing
  2. Use CTRL + U to ungroup until you can click on the label on the 3D object.
  3. Laying out the new materialSelectyour previously duplicated and revised material in the material editor
  4. Now click on the icon for assigning (brush icon) the new material
  5. Subsequently, the existing texture / graphic is replaced
  6. Mark the complete article by means of pressed mouse button per frame selection
  7. Create a new group around the object with CTRL + G

Assign layer (Optional)

  1. Select your modified article and choose the layers icon on the right side of the toolbar
  2. With a right click on the corresponding layer you can assign your article to the layer

Following this, you can clean up your drawing to remove any materials that are no longer necessary.

Assign new item information

There are two ways to assign new information or meta information to your articles. These are relevant for the evaluations.

Commercial within visual-Store

Exchange of the information by means of the properties window. This information is then saved only for the current plan.