Creating textured STEP models for 3D view

[kammutierspule]

Hi Tom,
I am happy that you are enjoying 3D viewer.

Unfortunately, at moment, there is any kind of (images) texture load for 3D Viewer.
I am not sure also if STEP supports textures at all.

However, depending on what you consider “textures” there could be some ways to get it displayed in 3D Viewer.

Have a look on my answer on this thread:

3d image inclusion

Unfortunately KiCad’s 3D Viewer does not support textures There is something you can try for fun: Some time ago I added a 3D text as a IC package information. The process I did to get 3D text (if I remember correctly) was: Get a good resolution clear image Using Inkscape convert the image to a vector and clean it. ( I dont remember if I did other process conversion) Export it with a format that FreeCAD can understand. Import it with FreeCAD (I dont remember the details). You may …

The idea is to “vectorize” what you consider the “texture” and convert it to a 3D shape (ideally non solid, for performance)
So most of the things like text on ICs or packages in 3D are created on some kind of this way. (extruding+add or extruding+subract)