Wood grain texture

[darbyvet]

I an a new Rhino user so forgive me if this is too basic a question. I am a hobbyist and I 3d print parts for models with my Form2 SLA printer.I want to make a wooden box with wood grain texture.From what I have read the textures that you can use in Rhino 6 only apply to rendering and wont actually form part of the surface for 3d printing.So if I apply a wood texture with texture mapping and then export the file as an .stl for printing the surface will be smooth. Is there any way to apply surface texture and have it become part of the surface for printing?

[siemen]

Have a look at this topic:

Pocket Watch, Rhino6, Raytraced displaymode, curvepiping, edge softening and displacement

It is a displacement. The displacement setting in Rhino isn’t very intuitive at first but you set the distance that black and white travels in either direction from the initial surface. And then set the resolution as high as you need. Here are the settings I used since I wanted black to be a negative imprint: [image] I also turned on the texture mapping for the object. (This object only uses one texture channel thus using channel 1)

[darbyvet]

thanks.that is exactly what I was looking for