Looking for surface textures for Alibre11.2

[larryspalding]

I'm interested in making a mold which has a surface texture and am wondering is there any source of cad files or parts that I can use as a texture to lay over a solid design using Alibre?

[tobyaxis]

There are a number of textures for Hypershot but textures in Alibre?? I do not think there are any.

Have you tried here

[grahamshere]

With something like that wouldn't you need to export to a organic type of cad program like silo,blender,zbrush?

[tobyaxis]

With something like that wouldn't you need to export to a organic type of cad program like silo,blender,zbrush?

This was posted on Alibre's site and answered.

Someone used the Open API and created a Module to create different textures.

I'm not sure if this fixed his problem though. He has not posted back.

[grahamshere]

im sure you can save as an iges file then export to another prog and the export as an obj to silo or somthing

[tobyaxis]

im sure you can save as an iges file then export to another prog and the export as an obj to silo or somthing

You will have to excuse my ignorance, but what is an OBJ or SILO Extension?
I have never seen these.

[grahamshere]

Obj is a file format that most 3d graphic software use like 3dmax and blender and such, silo is a 3d graphic's program that you can add textures to. you can do a 3d model from alibre and then send it to silo after changing the file a couple of time, then add texture and such, the only thing is it will need to be subdivided a few times.