Hello,
I have made a custom appearance of roofing felt, however i have come to use it today and it wont work, even when rendering it shows up as a blank shape. Has anyone got any ideas on how to fix it (it took me ages at the beginning of last year to make!) I will attach the .p2m file as well for those who are more technical minded than me it might help
many thanks
Karlos,
Have you got the image that you used to create the appearance?
pretty sure it was this Greg
Is everything still in the same network locations as when you saved it? By default SW does not save appearances as part of the file. Because of this if the file is opened from a new location, the appearance file link is lost and it does not appear. There is a setting in tool/options to save it in the file.
Thanks Jeff,
that could be the case, it was such a long time ago it may have been moved! is there a way of re-linking the two?
cheers
No you will likely have to search for it.
Karlos,
You should be able to recreate the appearance very quickly. Apply a random appearance to a part. Under the property manager there is a box where you can browse to your felt image. Once this is selected it will pop up a save box so you can save it as a new appearance.
It is best to save it into a folder on your desktop or c drive, then map that folder to your appearance folder.
Hope this makes sense!
Thanks Greg,
Seems to have worked! thanks to both of you for your help!
Muchly appreciated
Karlos,
You should be able to recreate the appearance very quickly. Apply a random appearance to a part. Under the property manager there is a box where you can browse to your felt image. Once this is selected it will pop up a save box so you can save it as a new appearance.
It is best to save it into a folder on your desktop or c drive, then map that folder to your appearance folder.
Hope this makes sense!