# Auto ORIENTATION in visualization - alignment of wood grain

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/auto-orientation-in-visualization-alignment-of-wood-grain/25717>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [May 8, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/auto-orientation-in-visualization-alignment-of-wood-grain/25717 "2023-05-08T21:52:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steve566074](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Steve566074](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Steve566074)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/auto-orientation-in-visualization-alignment-of-wood-grain/25717/1 "2023-05-08T21:52:44Z")

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Very please to see the new feature in the visualization. However (unless I am missing something), it does not work well with wood grain. I did put forward a suggestion to allow the ability to select the direction some months ago as I make things like toy boxes and it would be good to give clients a professional view of the design before they commit to an order. Are there plans to enhance the new feature to allow the alignment of “grain”?

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**Author:** ![Steve566074](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Steve566074](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Steve566074)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/auto-orientation-in-visualization-alignment-of-wood-grain/25717/2 "2023-05-08T21:54:51Z")

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![Freya’s toy box - final-2023-05-08 224428](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/7/1/71c54d7ea00ba76b3ccc3ca91540f4b3d1805223.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Marton\_Shapr3D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Marton\_Shapr3D](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Marton_Shapr3D)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 7:16am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/auto-orientation-in-visualization-alignment-of-wood-grain/25717/3 "2023-05-09T07:16:28Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for the feedback! We are currently working on adding more fine tuning opportunities to materials that would enable further customization of the grain direction.

Marton

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**Author:** ![Plane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/0ea827/32.png) [@Plane](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Plane)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/auto-orientation-in-visualization-alignment-of-wood-grain/25717/4 "2023-05-09T20:47:53Z")

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Will you be bringing the ability to orientate the material sepeartely in the x, y , and z axis? And the ability to assign the same material to different components with the ability to alter the settings to each individually?