# Making a brick wall texture for 3d printing

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/making-a-brick-wall-texture-for-3d-printing/22347>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [November 7, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/making-a-brick-wall-texture-for-3d-printing/22347 "2022-11-07T00:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Curiousmissy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@Curiousmissy](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Curiousmissy)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/making-a-brick-wall-texture-for-3d-printing/22347/1 "2022-11-07T00:15:41Z")

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Hi Guys!  
I am trying to make a mini house/shop and 3d print it. Best way to go about it is to sketch it all up on here and then cut it so that I print each wall individually laying down for better quality. Totally fine with that.  
Now I’m getting along find with this but am having trouble making brick texture onto my walls. I thought about making sort of like a stamp thing but that feels tedious to make 100 horizontal lines, then 100 vertical lines and THEEEEn indent it!  
Does anyone know of a simpler way to do this? I must be missing something!

And thank in advance!

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**Author:** ![Matt\_the-Rathje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Matt\_the-Rathje](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Matt_the-Rathje)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/making-a-brick-wall-texture-for-3d-printing/22347/2 "2022-11-07T12:24:10Z")

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Hey CouriousMissy,  
I would suggest building a block representing the wall, building a grid representing the grooves and subtract them.  
In order making life easier you can use linear patterns instead of drawing hundrets of lines.  
I made you a fast/little sample here during lunch-break:  
[Another Brick in the Wall.shapr](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/uploads/short-url/rQGCdTmRsrayxbSMx0OYmdiYDPb.shapr) (85.8 KB)  
The scale of it is 1:10 right now, feel free to scale it to your needs.  
HTH.  
Cheers Matt

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**Author:** ![Curiousmissy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@Curiousmissy](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Curiousmissy)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/making-a-brick-wall-texture-for-3d-printing/22347/3 "2022-11-07T12:45:37Z")

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Thank you! I was already halfway through making the grid like you said when I decided to ask for help. I shall continue then.  
thank you!!!

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**Author:** ![TigerMike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/tigermike/32/32650_2.png) [@TigerMike](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TigerMike)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/making-a-brick-wall-texture-for-3d-printing/22347/4 "2022-11-07T16:27:11Z")

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Nice work. Luv the title!

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**Author:** ![Curiousmissy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@Curiousmissy](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Curiousmissy)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/making-a-brick-wall-texture-for-3d-printing/22347/5 "2022-11-07T17:18:50Z")

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Right! That was not lost on me either. I was just listening to Pink Floyd yesterday. It came full circle.