Textures Materials and Appearances for SW

grabcad

I was on all the Solidworks Sites looking for textures "appearances" to do some renderings on SW Visualize and I cannot find any! Any at all! If anyone knows where these elusive ".SVAP" files are please let me know!!!!Anyway, I was searching and I came across GoEngineer tutorial on how to convert a PhotoView texture to an SW Visualize texture. http://www.goengineer.com/knowledge-base/solidworks-visualize-converting-modo-appearances-for-use-in-visualize/This was helpful because Solidworks has textures that Visualize doesn't have. It is annoying to have to go back into SW to change a texture to restart a visualize scene. So, I set off to convert the installed SW textures I had into Visualize textures only to find out that I have been collecting random textures for a very long time. It was a huge mess and most of them didn't even work. My favorite ones were the textures that looked great in SW but converted to Visualize looked horrible. Many of these are in the download. If I knew who to give credit to I would!!! I know I am a huge fan of GrabCAD so I know some of the textures are from people on this site then I converted them. So I included both materials and appearances that I mostly cleaned up. The list of files was never ending and my mind was going numb... but I got most of them. :)Hope this helps someone who wants to render something other than a car. Oh and here are some horrible quick renderings on Visualize to show some odd materials. With the ball model I used to convert material to appearance.