Wrong rotated textures

john2 · 15 Jan 2015, 17:00

Often while modeling rectangular and straight faces when I apply texture, it gets applied in a rotated way? I have to manually then rotate the texture intuitively which is not accurate. How can I solve it? I have tried using thomthom UV toolkit but it does not solve this issue.

Dave R · 15 Jan 2015, 17:09

How about an example image?

driven · 15 Jan 2015, 19:34

are the faces reversed?

john

Wo3Dan · 15 Jan 2015, 21:22

@john2 said:

Often while modeling rectangular and straight faces when I apply texture, it gets applied in a rotated way?
This happens with changed (rotated) drawing axes. Is this what happens in your case?
@john2 said:

I have to manually then rotate the texture intuitively which is not accurate. How can I solve it?....
The green rotation pin snaps to edges and guides.
A guide rotated a known angle makes exact rotation possible. Be sure to have the red texture pin on the edge/guide intersection prior to the rotation taking place.

john2 · 15 Jan 2015, 22:31

@wo3dan said:

@john2 said:

Often while modeling rectangular and straight faces when I apply texture, it gets applied in a rotated way?
This happens with changed (rotated) drawing axes. Is this what happens in your case?
@john2 said:

I have to manually then rotate the texture intuitively which is not accurate. How can I solve it?....
The green rotation pin snaps to edges and guides.
A guide rotated a known angle makes exact rotation possible. Be sure to have the red texture pin on the edge/guide intersection prior to the rotation taking place.

Yes, that is exactly what was happening. Thanks for telling about the red pin

I also found a plugin

https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/eneroth-texture-positioning-tools

Dave R · 15 Jan 2015, 22:34

Still struggling with those screwed up axes from your poorly created CAD file, huh?

john2 · 18 Jan 2015, 14:54

@dave r said:

Still struggling with those screwed up axes from your poorly created CAD file, huh?

Yeah, I was running out of time. It was too late to make a fresh cad file with all the axes correct and then do Sketchupping again. That's why I was desperate for the plugin. But phew..I'm done with the work. I made a sketchup model for a 32 acre site which was the largest one I've ever worked upon.

The funny part is that I never cared about axes in Autocad for 8 years or so (the same time I've been working with sketchup). And things went really well in sketchup.

But now in 2014-15 I faced this really big trouble.