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Chapter 5 Rendering in SketchUp
4. Use the eraser to remove all the dashed lines and create one continuous surface.
5. Now you can apply any texture image to this surface. Use the positioning tool to stretch
and place the texture to your liking. For this example, I placed a cross-texture on the surface
that illustrates its placement on the curve.
6. Right-click on the plane and select “Make unique texture.” This creates a new texture
that retains the current positioning and gets cropped to the face’s edges of the surface.
You can find it in the Materials window (under the In Model textures). Simply pick this
one and apply it to the curved surface. To do this successfully, you must turn off viewing
of hidden lines—the texture will then correctly be applied to the entire curved surface,
as shown here.
Example 5.4: Texturing a Sphere
One object that cannot be textured correctly using any of the methods presented here is a
sphere. A sphere in SketchUp is commonly produced by revolving an arc around an axis. As
you can see in Figure 5.79, it therefore consists of rectangular faces of varying sizes and
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