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Fabric texture

Carbon Fiber texture for 3D printing

Carbon Fiber creates a repeating woven relief for printed panels and props when a controlled physical weave is more useful than colour-only carbon-fibre artwork.

Carbon Fiber grayscale height map for 3D printing — Flat height map

Carbon Fiber texture previewed as relief on a cylinder — Relief preview on a curved surface

Printable texture guide

How to use Carbon Fiber on a 3D print

Carbon Fiber creates a repeating woven relief for printed panels and props when a controlled physical weave is more useful than colour-only carbon-fibre artwork.

Where it works well

automotive and racing props
electronics panels
robot and drone shells

Keep the weave aligned with a deliberate model axis and hide the seam on the rear or underside. The pattern is regular, so leave infinite variation off. Use a restrained depth: real carbon-fibre cloth has visible weave structure, but a deep printed basket texture quickly looks exaggerated.

Limitations

Reskin3D produces monochrome surface geometry; it does not reproduce the reflective colour and resin appearance of real carbon fibre.

Adjustable controls

Control	Range	Default
Tow Count	4–32	8
Tow Gap	0–0.3	0.08
Fiber Sheen	0–1	0.5

Apply it in Reskin3D

Open a watertight STL or 3MF and select only the surface that should receive the texture.
Use Carbon Fiber, start with the settings above, then orbit the full model to inspect seams and protected faces.
Bake the layer, export STL or 3MF, and inspect the actual sliced toolpaths before committing to a long print.

Scale and printability guide

Related workflows

Use this texture in a complete workflow

Add a Carbon-Fiber Texture to an STLCreate controlled woven relief on an STL and export printable geometry instead of a colour-only texture.

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