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shipping container texture + plan suggestions?


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Anyone ever tried to use the wall tool to draw the walls of a standard shipping container? They're around 3" thick corrugated steel. I've monkeyed around with wall components to no avail. Seems the closest one could get would be to use the insulation tool, but that's not 3-d and you can't slap doors and windows into it.

While I'm at it, any suggestions for where to get or modify the steel texture of a container would be helpful.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks jnr@cfw.com

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Fake it, since I'm under a deadline and have to crank out the drawings before next Friday. I slapped on regular corrugated from the metal textures library. I guess I was also hoping for a way to draw the corrugations as a wall type in plan, but in the end it may not be that important for the scale of what I'm doing. Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

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Probably simple to just use a poly to draw the corrugated panel in 2D plan...bucket fill it and then extrude to height. That'll give you your corrugation. Subtract solids to create openings for doors and windows than insert door and window symbols to the holes. Save the original poly's used prior to bucket fill for the 2D plan.

Check out the following for textures...

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/texture_colour/

http://www.andras.net/alltextures/

http://www.ted-kyte.com/

http://www.cgtextures.com/

Pete A

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  • 9 years later...
On 21/02/2008 at 10:24 PM, islandmon said:

Shipping Containers are combination of various structural components :

chassis,frame, panels, doors, etc.

Are you trying to 'fake' the 3d look of one or are you seeking to create a realistic model ?

Hi, 

 

Reading through this topic and this is something I am trying to do currently, I have modelled all the components of the container - Iso blocks, frame, floor, barn doors etc but struggling to produce an accurate version of the walls that I can easily cut windows and doors from. 

 

At the moment i'm drawing walls using the wall tool and using 'create wall recess' to cut out the corrugated effect, this works fine when I have a wall make-up inside but when I need to show a container with bare corrugated walls inside and out it's not so useful. 

 

Any ideas of how I could get this to work would be appreciated, thanks!

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