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Adding textures

Adding textures - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Adding textures

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- [Instructor] To make our products look more realistic, we can add textures to any geometry actor by going through the actor's properties. So, let's say I want to apply a plastic texture to my enclosure actors, so I'll just multi-select, grab my top half of the enclosure, the bottom half of my enclosure, and the legs. And again, I'm multi-selecting just holding down the control key and then I'll navigate through my properties panel and I have an option called texture and by default texture has been disabled for all of these actors but if I want to apply a specific texture here, I can just check off Enable and then I have a whole number of additional properties that will pop up. First and most importantly, I'll need to map out the path or choose the specific texture file I want to apply here. So, I can just click on the three dots, and browse to the specific file I'm looking for. Here I just have a plastic texture and you can really use almost any standard image file, so whether that…

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