# Wood grain direction/ orientation

**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction-orientation/18656
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [April 8, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction-orientation/18656 "2022-04-08T18:59:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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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: [April 8, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction-orientation/18656/1 "2022-04-08T18:59:05Z")

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Will you be allowing the orientation of the wood grain to be altered to allow for a more realistic visualisation?

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### Author: ![DanielR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/danielr/32/582_2.png) [@DanielR](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/DanielR)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction-orientation/18656/2 "2022-04-08T21:13:07Z")

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On our immediate roadmap 🙂 Check out this thread for more info

> [@Wood Grain Orientation](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-orientation/18574/2):
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> Hello - we totally agree and it is on our immediate roadmap. Depending on the speed of development (and unforeseen issues) it should arrive by the end of June. This can change, but this is our goal at this point

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### Author: ![ricardo.schirmer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/ricardo.schirmer/32/14381_2.png) [@ricardo.schirmer](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/ricardo.schirmer)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction-orientation/18656/3 "2022-04-14T14:43:59Z")

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Totally agree… We need it!  
My design called Des Menines nigthstand at the Visualization:

 ![Des Meninas](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/b/b37a3bc4afc569c5b56f5d09419158f2929b69c7.jpeg)

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### Author: ![Hammerhand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/hammerhand/32/13455_2.png) [@Hammerhand](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Hammerhand)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction-orientation/18656/4 "2022-04-20T15:21:48Z")

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Just haul your wood models into Cadmio, it solves all your issues with grain orientation. A fantastic adjunct, I’m going to keep it no matter how much Shapr adds to the tool kit. The two together have literally changed my workflow.