Is texture positioning always this cumbersome or am I missing something?

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I’m filling the faces of a six-sided crate with a wood material. Crates are obviously made up of multiple pieces of wood oriented in various directions but the fill tool always places the texture in the same orientation. Can I reposition the texture on multiple faces at once or do I have to move each plank’s texture individually?

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Position the texture on one face of one plank how you like it. You can then sample this material and paint it on other faces. To do this press the B key for the paint buckst and then hold down the command key (macOS, I think this is control on a PC) and an eye dropper will appear - select the material have adjusted and then release the command or control key. You can then use the bucket to apply to other faces in your model.

Edit to add - if you edit your group or component and select all, then press B for the paint bucket and click a face you can paint your samples texture on all the faces you select at one time.

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You can use ThruPaint. V1 is part of FredoTools and still free.

ThruPaint | SketchUcation (V1)
FredoTools | SketchUcation
LibFredo6 | SketchUcation (required to run FredoTools)

Or ThruPaint V2 as paid extension ThruPaint | SketchUcation

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Thank you, bmike, for the explanation and the video. I appreciate your help.

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No problem. Click the little ‘solution’ check box on the post that helped. Will mark this as solved, and allow people to skip right ahead to the answer.