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@alan fraser said: You could maybe build-in a few blemishes, but for an overall granular texture it might be better to investigate methods of physically abrading/distressing the finished surface. Okay thanks! I think I probably will have to go that route. Thanks again all for the help!!

Yes, if you use the Full Color Sandstone material from Shapeways. It requires only one texture in Sketchup (combine them first if you have two or more) and converting to VRML in Meshlab to make it work, here's a tutorial. Its quite a bit of messing around, but it does work. i.materialise will take your Sketchup file directly, but since their pricing promotes big projects, it will cost more than Shapeways.

@unknownuser said: Looks like the faces are reversed? @gilles said: Yes they are. Select a white face, right click choose orient faces in context menu. Thanks guy's, that fixed my problem! Learned something new!!

Thanks guy's for the help much appreciate it!! Tig, I tried your suggestion first, I blew it up huge, tried that and that solved my problem. Thanks a lot, I didn't know about drawing things already to there size could cause problems like I had, being that it was such a small item. Now I just gotta figure how to get my tubbing in there and get that drop off/slope on each side of that tubing and I'm done. Thanks again! Mike