Texturic makes a seamless tile texture in your browser: pick one of 380+ patterns and a material, set size and joints, then download albedo, normal, roughness, metalness and AO maps. A step-by-step guide.
Category Archives: Tools
Thirteen SketchUp material plugins and texture tools compared: which make a material from a pattern, which only fix an existing one, which PBR maps come out and how each is paid for. Texturic against Architextures head to head.
Texturic turns a pattern and a photo into a seamless texture with PBR maps: apply it to the selected faces, or save the maps on the web. Three free results a day.
Hatchy turns a pattern into a hatch pattern (.pat) for AutoCAD, Rhino, ZWCAD, Inventor, SketchUp or Revit: pick one of about 1,000 patterns, set size, rotation and joints, download.
Motif is a Revit add-in: pick one of 300+ patterns and create a material with a seamless texture, a Surface pattern and a Cut pattern. 3 free uses a day.
SketchUp, Tools, Tracepen
Image to SKP Free: Turn a JPG or PNG Into SketchUp Faces, One Group per Colour
Image to SKP inside SketchUp: Tracepen traces a JPG or PNG into native faces, one group and one material per colour, and the page says which routes suit a logo, a relief or a photo.
Free online image tracer: drop a PNG, JPG or WebP into your browser, trace it into SVG, PDF or DXF (Lines, Hatch, Faces), and the picture never leaves your computer – every control, what each export contains, what to trace and what not to.
TileUp turns a selected face into real 3D tiles: herringbone, chevron, hexagon and 181 patterns, or any component repeated on two vectors, with a take-off. 3 free uses a day.
How to make an STL file smaller: why size equals triangle count, how to work out the result before you export, and how to reduce it free in the browser.
Build a herringbone floor material in Revit: a model fill pattern, a matching texture and a cut pattern, with Autodesk’s steps, then a faster route with Motif.