# Wood grain direction
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919
**Category:** Feature requests
**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 5:15am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919 "2023-02-03T05:15:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@leifnicklas](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/leifnicklas)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 5:15am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/1 "2023-02-03T05:15:02Z")
Any updates on when we be able to change wood grain direction in visualization? Not being able to do so is really making my presentations look amateurish to clients, having to explain each time that what you see in shapr is different from the final product. As a woodworker this is not good, and very important. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/2 "2023-02-03T08:27:03Z")
We currently aim to deliver it in a few weeks. Wanted to do it sooner, but we ran into problems, thanks for the patience!
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### Author:  [@leifnicklas](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/leifnicklas)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/3 "2023-02-04T02:08:44Z")
How amazing! Love your responsiveness and how you listen to your users, such a great company and wonderful piece of software. When will you go public so I can buy stock?!?
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### Author:  [@symon](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/symon)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/4 "2023-02-04T15:10:54Z")
Same for me too, hoping we can add our own materials too.
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### Author:  [@Heed](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Heed)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/5 "2023-02-06T18:43:48Z")
Custom textures is completely necessary for me! Working with full color 3D printing and sorry that I can’t use Shapr3D to make my models…
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### Author:  [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/6 "2023-02-06T18:56:02Z")
Could you explain why do you need custom textures for 3D printing?
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### Author:  [@Vassi\_solutions](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Vassi_solutions)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/7 "2023-02-06T19:09:44Z")
Cadmio has this feature….
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### Author:  [@pro3d](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/pro3d)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/8 "2023-02-06T21:19:12Z")
[quote=“Laci\_K, post:6, topic:23919, full:true”]
Could you explain why do you need custom textures for 3D printing?
[/quote] Hi, here is good explanation of textures and patterns for 3d printing [Texturing 3D Prints for Strength! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-ygdNQThAs)
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### Author:  [@Matt\_the-Rathje](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Matt_the-Rathje)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/9 "2023-02-06T21:55:12Z")
There is a difference between graphical texture for visualisation (like it was intended by the tread-opener) and tactile texture. I personally hardly doubt we will see tactile textures ib S3D at all. It would cost a ton of performance and you may also apply that during slicing by using Ideamaker.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDOO1gUXfoI)
HTH
Cheers Matt
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### Author:  [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/10 "2023-02-07T07:59:45Z")
As @Matt_the-Rathje said, Shapr3D’s Visualization is just that, a visual texturing, it doesn’t change the geometry in any way, so you can’t print it out.
We do plan on adding the option of custom textures at some point in the future, however they will behave the same way as the existing ones.
As shown in the video, if you want to change the surface of the 3D print, the best place to do it is the slicer itself.
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### Author:  [@Heed](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Heed)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/11 "2023-02-08T15:42:13Z")
I work with full color 3D printing, for the most buildings and new constructions. We use a 3D Systems ProJet 660 that prints the textures (custom pictures) directly on the model. For example brick walls, grass and so.
So for my to fully use only Shapr3D I must have custom textures from pictures and the ability to export the model with them to VRML or OBJ.
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### Author:  [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/12 "2023-02-08T16:19:12Z")
Thanks!
Custom materials are an interesting topic that we research, however it’s not on our near-term roadmap at the moment.
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### Author:  [@symon](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/symon)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/13 "2023-05-19T02:03:22Z")
Will you be adding more materials though? That’s not so hard to do I expect.
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### Author:  [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/14 "2023-05-19T08:28:41Z")
We will keep adding materials from time to time.
It’s actually not that easy to create high quality materials, we have multiple digital artists working on that, sometimes we buy the material in real life to take photos etc.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/15 "2023-05-19T20:25:49Z")
Making materials takes a lot of time. Even taking photos for use as material is tricky with bright highlights and other things to avoid.
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### Author:  [@symon](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/symon)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2023, 11:18am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/16 "2023-05-21T11:18:27Z")
You could hold a competition for new materials…
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### Author:  [@Bentley](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bentley)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/17 "2023-10-18T13:59:03Z")
Any update on this please 🙂
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### Author:  [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/wood-grain-direction/23919/18 "2023-10-18T13:59:40Z")
Hi Bentley, material orientation has been released for a few months now.