Gaieus,

That's where I am confused with the UVTools. The steps I have been using are:

1. Import logo image as a texture on face perpendicular to the cylinder
2. Make the texture a projected texture
3. Right click on the logo texture and select "Cylinder" from the UVTools contextual menu
4. Use the eyedropper tool to sample the logo texture
5. Use the paint bucket to paint on the Cylinder.

Is that the correct sequence? I also read comments about editing the texture after you have painted it, but I don't see how to do that with the UVTools ver. 1 plugin.

jpg of logo used for projecting as a texture

jpg of rendering with logo

JPG of rendering with no logo

Thanks for the offer of help. I am attaching a .skp file that contains an example cylinder. It also includes a sample logo that I used to intersect with the model and then paint in the letters. I will also include several jpgs that show renderings of the cylinder, before and after the intersection, where you can see the artifacts that are introduced after the intersection. I have tried smoothing with the eraser tool, but that didn't help. In fact, this attempt has the least amount of artifacts. Other attempts introduced roughness all the way up to the frustrum on top of the cylinder.

I will also include a jpg of the logo which I have tried to project as an image, but when I do it just wraps around the cylinder. I tried the UV tools, but I am not sure I am using it correctly.

Any help or advice you can give would be greatly appreciated because I run into this problem alot.

Sketchup file with cylinder and logo

I have read the various tutorials regarding projecting a texture on to a cylinder. In all of the cases, the logo keeps repeating itself around the cylinder. I have also seen and tried to make a stamp of the logo, intersect it with the cylinder and paint it in. In many of those cases, the intersection then adds additional roughness to the cylinder that can be seen when rendered.

Is there a way to paint a logo (e.g. a flag on a cylinder, and city emblem on a cylindrical water tower) without it repeating and/or messing up the smoothness of the original cylinder?