textures

I am a new user of Solid Works as employee of a company that manufactures wooden playground equipment. I have created some parts like the poles of our playground towers and have assigned 'pine' as material. I have noticed that the direction of the structure of the pine varies along the different surfaces of these parts and I am unable to correct this direction in some cases.

In other cases I am under the impression that when I am able to change it and save the part, the direction changed again after opening the part again.

Has anyone experienced the same ?

KG

If you're assigning the textures is SolidWorks your control over them is going to be limited and unpredictable.

If you asign the textures in PhotoWorks (the rendering add-in) you'll have more control over the texture.