Member type3secretion Posted April 1, 2014 Member Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 I've used 3D coat to texture map images and decorate musical instrument CAD designs and then 3D print them. I would love to be able to do something similar with embossed or etched/carved patterns: "paint" them over the surface of an object imported into 3D-coat, controlling size, depth/height, texture, etc. Are there any such sculpting tools for pre-made patterned carving, embossing, etc? If yes, I'm sorry it was not clear to me from what I could find online. Thanks, t3s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 You can load a shape letter E and to use it for cut, extrude, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member type3secretion Posted April 2, 2014 Author Member Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 You can load a shape letter E and to use it for cut, extrude, etc... Hi thanks. I was looking for more complex shapes. Vines and flowers, animals. Something like a paint brush pattern or texture map but in 3D. Could be a good business for modelers. Make a library of 3D art that can be easily "applied" to a surface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 any eps with complex shapes.can be loaded as shape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member type3secretion Posted April 3, 2014 Author Member Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 any eps with complex shapes.can be loaded as shape And the newbie goes off to parse and translate this. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 sorry if i was not very clear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member type3secretion Posted April 3, 2014 Author Member Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 LOADSHAPE.jpg sorry if i was not very clear I just haven't done a lot with such things, so I'll have to learn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Hi Any BW image can be used too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor digman Posted April 4, 2014 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 (edited) Here is one way... Surface Mode: InflateClay brush E-Panel Stamping tool. (looks like an X) Increase the depth for the extrusion as much as needed for the design. Mine was set at 400 manually, just to show the effect. I used a flower brush alpha I created Set the detail level (tool options panel) to whatever you need to get a nice clean stamp. You can manually set it up to 10. If that is not enough use the Subdivide tool (top left tool panel) and increase the polygons in the area that you will stamp the relief on... Press the left mouse key or your tablet key and the relief will be stamped on the surface. Now you can create your own alphas for reliefs. In my case here I used an obj file from a sculpting I had started to make. (Wip) for creating a brush alpha. In the brush panel select on new and even though it only saids to open an texture file, it will open an obj file and give you a dialog box to adjust for the creation of the alpha based off the obj file. Of couse you can create your alpha brushes in a 2D paint program as well and import them as an alpha brush for relief work. When I am all done I use the reduce tool to remove the extra heavy detail around the stamp but leaving all the details on the stamp of course. Sorry for showing just one alpha stamp but you will get the idea. Kinda busy right now... Edited April 4, 2014 by digman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member type3secretion Posted April 5, 2014 Author Member Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Here is one way... Surface Mode: InflateClay brush E-Panel Stamping tool. (looks like an X) Increase the depth for the extrusion as much as needed for the design. Mine was set at 400 manually, just to show the effect. I used a flower brush alpha I created Set the detail level (tool options panel) to whatever you need to get a nice clean stamp. You can manually set it up to 10. If that is not enough use the Subdivide tool (top left tool panel) and increase the polygons in the area that you will stamp the relief on... Press the left mouse key or your tablet key and the relief will be stamped on the surface. Now you can create your own alphas for reliefs. In my case here I used an obj file from a sculpting I had started to make. (Wip) for creating a brush alpha. In the brush panel select on new and even though it only saids to open an texture file, it will open an obj file and give you a dialog box to adjust for the creation of the alpha based off the obj file. Of couse you can create your alpha brushes in a 2D paint program as well and import them as an alpha brush for relief work. When I am all done I use the reduce tool to remove the extra heavy detail around the stamp but leaving all the details on the stamp of course. Sorry for showing just one alpha stamp but you will get the idea. Kinda busy right now... Thanks very much to everyone for all the help. I'll start trying this out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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