Hello everyone,
I need to convert my building (with its textures and everything) into meshes.
When I do it from “mesh” 
“from NURBS object”, something weird happens to the textures. It doesn’t perceive the texture mapping that I created before, and fixing everything one by one is really difficult. It is Rhino5.
Do you have any suggestions?
Best regards,
Pinar
Hi Pinar - does ExtractRenderMesh do a better job?
-Pascal
Hi Pascal,
Unfortunately not.
You can see it from the photo, it is totally ruined… I have already spent so much time to apply the textures nicely to make it look realistic, now I need to re-do them again in Mesh form. This is really frustrating. Please if anyone has a suggestion, don’t hesitate to share it with me.
Best,
Pinar
Hi Pinar - can you please post or send me a file with one or two objects correctly mapped with the materials, and please make sure to save with textures.
-Pascal
Hi Pascal,
Could you give me your email address? I got a warning that the file size is too big.
Best,
Pinar
Dear Pascal,
I managed to upload the file here.
You can find it in the attachment.
Best,
Pinar
201221_Pinar_Building.zip (14.8 MB)
Hi Pinar - what happens if you set all the textures to use WCS Box style? Use a sperate copy of each texture sized appropriately for each material that uses a texture that is scaled differently - like the Old Brick texture is used multiple times - then the conversion to mesh is correct, though, I am not sure yet why your setup does not work.
@aksupi - V5 this time…
201221_Pinar_Building_WCSBox.3dm (781.5 KB)
-Pascal
Dear Pascal,
I use Rhino5 so I can’t open the file you sent me.
What do you recommend as a solution for Rhino 5? I have to use Rhino 5… I can’t upgrade it.
Thank you.
Best,
Pinar Aksu
Hi Pinar - it looks like V5 does not do the right thing when a mesh is created, even from a WCS texture.
-Pascal
Hi Pascal. So you say there is no way that I can make it work with V5?
Well, I can say that it is not working for me so far… creating meshes in V7 seems to do the right thing with wcs textures, but not V5.
@aksupi – ExtractRenderMesh may get you the right texturing, if that mesh is OK for your needs.
-Pascal
Dear Pascal,
I have a couple of questions.
Best regards,
Pinar
Hi Pinar -
We don’t have the RhinoCity plug-in - this is something that you would need to test.
I don’t see any form of licensing recorded on your eMail address…
An evaluation version of Rhino 7 is available for download from our website.
-wim
Hi Wim,
Since it is Rhinoceros 5.0 Evaluation, I don’t have a license. It says “Your evaluation period expires in 78 days.” Perhaps that’s the reason why you can’t see any record on my e-mail address.
We have the licensed version on the computers in the office, but since I am working remotely, I installed the evaluation version on my personal computer.
If you have any idea about how to protect the texture mapping when converting it into meshes in Version 5, I would be glad if you could kindly inform me.
Thank you all for your help.
Best regards,
Pinar
Dear Pascal,
I installed Rhino 7 now. I can finally work with it, but choosing WCS/OCS (box style) doesn’t help me a lot since I have to create the copies of the materials one by one for the each part the surfaces that I applied different texture mapping.
Do you have any other suggestion?
Best,
Pinar
Did you try to export Rhino file to obj and than import it?
Or try unwrap
Hi Pinar - I do not have a better suggestion. I think I understand now that the process is not so much the problem as the fact that you now need to re-do everything, because you’d mapped them differently previously, is that correct?
-Pascal
Hi Pascal,
Yes exactly, but somehow when I tried again with ExtractRenderMesh it worked! Thank you so much!
I have one more question: Is it possible inside Rhino 7 to save for previous versions of Rhino? In some other software it is possible to save the files to be compatible with previous versions.
Best,
Pinar
Hi Pinar -
Yes, if you use Export or SaveAs, you can pick from a list of formats, including previous Rhino versions:
HTH,
-wim
Hi Wim,
Thank you so much! It works perfectly!
Best,
Pinar
