I am trying to selectively give specific surfaces of my part (glossy glass) a textured look. When I highlight the surfaces within my workspace you can clearly see there is texture in the surface, but in the PV360 preview window and final render it appears glossy still. See attached screen capture.
What am I doing wrong?
SW2012 sp05
Dave,
Can you post your part?
Frank
Dave,
Here is one method ...
For the below image I applied "green glass" to the part and applied the same "green glass" to the split surface. Then adjust the refraction roughness to get a frosted look.
Sorry Frank, I can't post the part, it's not in production yet.
I was doing just that Keith, but it had no affect on the appearance. I even tried changing the appearance of the selected faces completely. Still nothing. A few short clicks later SW crashed on me. That tells me there was something buggy going on.
What ended up working was changing the faces at the part level within the part and then editing the appearance in the assembly. It was then updating the appearance with my changes. I guess that's what I was doing wrong?
The first time I tried deleting the top level appearance and adding the frost to the faces while in the assembly. I did notice that even though I deleted the assembly appearance it still showed up when I was right clicking the face, but the "delete" red X wasn't next to it. Odd.
Dave,
How is this?
I added a plate on the back to make it stand out more.
I used the glass frosted01 appearance, added some extra lighting with a darker background
i am having a hell of a time with textures to, i.e brushed (especially), frosted, cast, etc. just as you are. the real view shows properly but the PV360 window.... nothing. About all i have been able to come up with so far is add material, delete, close part, reopen, rebuild,blah blah blah and finally it will show up.....