Adding an image to a rippled surface

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Good Morning all,

I have a corrugate steel which is placed vertically like a fence in a garden. It is 2.7m high and 13.6m in length. Draw the corrugated steel yes, apply an image I can’t. Its this image SXKJ Graffiti Art Behind The Curtain Street Art Canvas Painting Posters and Prints Wall Art Pictures for Living Room Artwork 50x100cm Frameless : Amazon.co.uk: Home & Kitchen

May I ask for help please… (I have tried projected images but all I get is a million straight lines and not a even image).

Thanks all

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And what does the SKP model of that fence look like?

Using Paint tool and Projected

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The corrugated is the 13.6m length of the garden and with the ripples vertically.

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I was referring to what exactly the skp model you created looks like?
How did you model it? Is it made of pieces? Does it have thickness or is it just the face?
How did you try to apply the texture? How did you position it in relation to the model?
Is the geometry grouped? Did you try to apply the texture to the geometry or to the group?

Try to understand that no one but you has any way of knowing what you did there, so when you ask for help you should provide all the data so that we don’t have to guess what you did.

As you can see in the video, a texture can be applied to a wavy surface.

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Understood and thank you for helping. The model is herehttps://app.sketchup.com/share/tc/europe/wRDZbWgwnrE?source=desktop&stoken=lPO5IiLO1hNdOsn2cGpO3rGO0PVBmMEAxob1W39S13gwyKb8c0UG94MHWU5nflLF

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You chose to share a link to the viewer, meaning it can only be viewed but no proper edited and analyzed. From what I could see in your model, the geometry is grouped, has thickness, and some edges are hidden, creating a continuous surface on all sides.
When you want to share a model, you download it as an .skp file first and either drag it directly into the window where you write the message, or, if it’s over 16 MB, use a sharing service (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc…).

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PB_KH_01.skp (2.8 MB)

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double click on your group to open it.

click once more on the face to select it

use the material eye dropper and pick the image in front of the group

Then click the selected face. It should paint it fine.

Then click then next face along the run and paint that one

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Create the correct geometry

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Ok I think I am missing something here, thanks all for your videos but I have no sound for some reason and so I stuck at the part where you selected the group (corrugate element) and then select the dropper. From there is only picks up the single colour and not the whole image… what am I missing please SketchUp

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I edited the group by double clicking, and inside I selected only the necessary face, on which I then applied the texture that I sampled from the image.

If you need tutorials with audio, then follow the basic SketchUp courses on Campus - https://learn.trimble.com

Search the forum or SketchUp help to see what the sample entire image setting is on Mac.

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Do not click the little eye dropper:

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On a Mac - press B to call up the ‘Paint Bucket’ (materials pallet), then press Command to switch from the bucket to the sample eye dropper.

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I found it eventually, by pressing B and the command button… winner. Thanks to everyone