Texture rotating problem

[Garry Byrne]

I'm having a problem applying textures in a model that does not occur in any other model I've done. When I apply textures to faces that are perpendicular to the green direction, they are fine. When I apply to faces perpendicular to red direction, they are rotated 90 degrees.

Help?

[remus]

Could you post the model your having problems with? it can be pretty helpful.

As a bit of a guess it sounds like SU is just wrongly guessing about how you want to orientate the texture. You should be able to fix it by right clicking the affected face->texture->position. From there you should be able to manipulate the texture to the way you want it.

[Hazza]

@remus said:

right clicking the affected face -> texture -> position.

Then right click again -> Rotate - > 90 (or 270)

[Hazza]

@hazza said:

Then right click again -> Rotate - > 90 (or 270)

.... and if you have multiple faces that need rotating:

1. click off the face so that the coloured pins disappear but the face is still selected,
2. click the "eye dropper" in the materials dialog box,
3. sample the rotated face,
4. click any other face that needs it's texture rotated.

[remus]

Good tip aobut right clicking again, i didnt know you could do that.

[plot-paris]

@hazza said:

Then right click again -> Rotate - > 90 (or 270)

I have been working with SketchUp for years now. but I never had the idea to right-click when in texture-editing mode. and I allways complained about rotating a texture 90 degrees being lonwinded and labourious.
can you believe that

thanks Hazza for making my life yet a bit easier!

[chango70]

OMG! Me too! I didn't realise you can do that! Thanks!

[Hazza]

He he, don't thank me, I found out from Dave R here

[Garry Byrne]

@remus said:

Could you post the model your having problems with? it can be pretty helpful.

As a bit of a guess it sounds like SU is just wrongly guessing about how you want to orientate the texture. You should be able to fix it by right clicking the affected face->texture->position. From there you should be able to manipulate the texture to the way you want it.

Thanks for your reply. I do know how to fix it, but then again, this shouldn't be happening at all. Oh, Well, here's the file......

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Westernhills.skp

[Garry Byrne]

@hazza said:

@hazza said:

Then right click again -> Rotate - > 90 (or 270)

.... and if you have multiple faces that need rotating:

1. click off the face so that the coloured pins disappear but the face is still selected,
2. click the "eye dropper" in the materials dialog box,
3. sample the rotated face,
4. click any other face that needs it's texture rotated.

...and here I have been using Sketchup since 2002 and I never knew! I could have saved so much time in the past.

This program rocks (usually)!!

Thanks for this.