Laminate materials with a different look on each side

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Hello

For several years now, we have been using and transforming (machining, forming, bending, etc.) "laminated" materials. These are actually materials that can have a different look (décor) on each side of the plate.

For those who know: Alucobond, Dibond, Fundermax compact laminate, Colorboard (HDPE with one color on each side on 1mm and the heart of another color, see photo).

So my question is: can we create a material in SW with such a property?

The goal is to have an easy and quick visual of the parts made with these materials. Today I apply a color or texture on each side, the ideal would be to apply the material via the bookcase and that's it.


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It's up to you to create your new materials 

and save them to your library 

The best is to create your own personal library

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Hello @gt22,

We already have our own library of material which is very large. We are in the field of plastics processing, our library contains a multitude of plastics (PP, HDPE, PVC, PMMA, PC, POM, PA6...). Everything is organized by category/color/appearance.

In 98% of cases, the appearance applies to the total volume of the room and that's fine.

But in this case, I specify my question: how to give an appearance with several colors as in the photo of the previous post?

Knowing that for these materials, the plate thicknesses are standardized: 6.35mm, 12.7mm and 19mm.

In my research on custom appearances, I can't find anything that matches our needs, the appearance always applies evenly to the volume of the room.

I'll keep looking, if anyone has a tip I'm all for it...

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Why not create a multi-body piece

such as the actual material

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I had thought about it...

For the colorboard (photo), a bit heavy to do but doable.

For Dibond and Alucobond (painted, brushed, textured aluminium face and white or black PE core), it is very often folded with a grooving system.

I just tried a multibody sheet metal, it doesn't work...

I'm going to keep digging.


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Directly in the material, I don't think it's feasible: how would SW know which face to attribute which aspect to?

In your case, I'll start with template files (so prtdot, one per material), with just a rectangular protusion. Let's see if the appearance follows by adding folds or other functions.

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Otherwise you also have another walkthrough 

Which may be able to work

you create a normal single body sheet metal part

Once your piece is made, you assign it your multicolored material

To try 

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Hello

Why not create room models with these textures  or colors. I created this for all types of materials that we use, so I immediately have the right properties and textures in my parts and assemblies.

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Hello

Depending on the other software you have on your PC you can create decals, but you have to make them according to each fold.....

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Via your attached image

If it doesn't go through,  maybe it's

A bend radius problem

your radius is a bit small, isn't it?

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We have different materials plated  on top of each other.

I am not merging my functions. This is to create the different Bodies. I apply a material with its specific  texture for each body.

Cdlt

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Hi all

Thank you for your different answers, this leaves me with several leads to exploit in order to find a simple and reliable solution.

As far as the ColorBoard is concerned (blue/white/blue or other...), we will start with the fact of making a multiple body for the base of the pieces. It's rather simple in fact and in addition, it's a material that doesn't bend so no worries with the sheet metal module...

 

For Dibond and Alucobond, it will be a little more complicated. I think the solution of making a template part (.prtdot) would be well suited.

If someone has a model or a little tutorial, I'm all for it. In this model room, it would be necessary to assign a different material and color on both sides (if possible...) because for these, we don't need to manage the thickness of the decoration as on the ColorBoard.