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"Developing innovative sustainable products minimises human impact on the environment."
Introduction: This is a beginners tutorial that will teach you how to add textures to your soap designs.
Step 1: From the top menu, press the 'Create Form' icon.
Alternatively, select 'Create Form' from the 'Create' drop-down menu.
This will open up a new range of icons.
Step 2: From the new menu, select the box icon.
Select the plane that you would like to start sketching on. In this instance we will use the XY plane (the floor).
Step 3: Draw a centre point rectangle.
Start the rectangle by left-clicking where the red and green lines overlap.
Enter a dimension of 70mm.
Press the TAB button.
Enter a dimension of 50mm.
Press ENTER 3 times to complete the shape.
Step 4: Click on the green tick in the top right corner of the screen to 'finish form'.
This will complete the form.
Step 5: Click on any of the icons on the left to open the pattern in the Google drive.
Click on the download icon in the top right corner to download the pattern to your downloads folder. We will use this pattern later.
You may wish to find your own patterns here
Step 5: Click on the 'Insert' drop-down menu from the top toolbar.
Select 'Decal'. This will open a new window.
From the new window, select the 'Insert from my computer' button.
Locate the texture in your downloads folder.
Step 6: Once you have selected your texture, select the top face of the bar of soap. You will see that the pattern is too small.
Drag the corner icon to expand the texture until it covers the bar of soap.
Press ENTER to confirm.
Step 7: Press CTRL+4.
This will change the visual style from 'Shaded with visible edges only' to 'shaded'.
Press Windows Key+SHIFT+S to take a screenshot of your final CAD model.
(Mac users: Command+SHIFT+4).