How To Grain Wood Template

1 of my customers asked me nearly wood-grain fill patterns for Visio.

I had thought that Visio shipped with some wood-grain custom patterns, merely when I went looking, I didn't find much.

So…

I built my own.

Now, I didn't spend a lot of time on it, simply it turned out to be adequately decent. I wouldn't say this is the ultimate wood grain pattern, but for twenty-two or then lines and five-shapes, information technology turned out nicely.

Let's just call information technology a medium-quality wood-grain pattern. And you lot can download it for costless and use information technology to add texture to your technical drawings.

Details About the Wood Grain Pattern

This is what the Visio wood grain fill pattern looks like in information technology's rawest, simplest form.

Y'all can encounter that if y'all duplicate information technology in all directions, the lines…er…line up well:

Luckily, Visio does that for you. Past turning this pattern tile into a Visio Custom Make full Pattern, you tin utilize information technology to your shapes using the Fill dialog. See how the Woods-Night Grain detail shows in the Pattern field beneath?

Custom patterns evidence every bit text at the very lesser of the list. Custom patterns from all open Visio documents will show in your list. So you lot can just open the drawing from this article's download and the patterns volition be available to your other drawings. When you're washed, just close the woods grain pattern-containing drawing.

It is important to note that you can't change the grain color of the pattern. For that reason, I've provided three patterns: Woods-Dark Grain, Wood-Light Grain and Wood-Blackness & White.

Simply you lot can alter the fill color of the shape you are applying the design to. You have to set the Pattern colour, equally shown in the dialog above. Below, I demonstrate the iii patterns, using different background colors. Y'all tin see that with simply 3 patterns, we can get quite a few variations!

Wood-Night Grain

This design has a very dark chocolate-brown line color. I remember it works best with darker fill up colors, but let your imagination wander:

Forest-Calorie-free Grain

Here the wood's grain colour is a lighter brown, almost orange.

Forest-Blackness & White

If you're not into burning up too much colour toner in your printer, at that place'south a blackness and white option. The line color is a medium shade of gray. Hither we vary the fill color in shades of gray, 10% at a time, from white to black. Notation that the grain disappears with 20% gray (the third block.) That is because the fill color and the wood grain line color are the same!

Applying the Pattern

Y'all tin can use the Fill dialog to utilize the pattern, but you'll accept to experiment a lot to get good-looking background colors. If you lot like the colors that are in the demo drawing that comes with the download, it might be easier to but utilize the Format Painter tool.

With the Format Painter, you just select ane of the forest shapes, click the tool, the click the shape you desire to apply the formatting to. Hither you can see that the Format Painter can exist a bit Draconian. With ability comes responsibleness:

Using the Blueprint

If yous've read this far, you probably really need a wood grain pattern, and don't demand me to tell you what to do with it. Nevertheless, my table is always laden with nutrient for thought.

You can mix and match diverse color combinations and orientations to brand, say, a wooden crate:

Or peradventure a bit on the frivolous side, this wacky flowchart. Wacky, that is, unless you work in Lurid & Paper, in which case, this makes for a compelling business process management diagram:

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