Material Mapping Checklist

Before submitting your spreadsheet and images, please double-check the following:   

      Image files must be a JPG or PNG (cannot be a JPEG)

      Provided JPG or PNG files should be sized at 96 DPI

      Use tileable graphics for textures (such as wood grains)

      Orient wood grains in the direction you would like it to go on the product

      FIXED MATERIAL and PART-LAYER-IMAGE worksheets need to be in all caps

      Replace any spaces in the layer name with underscores

      Layer names cannot exceed 26 characters

Submit Data

Please submit the completed spreadsheet along with ON_IM and ON_MAT folders to data@configura.com for review and publication testing. We'll notify you of any updates or changes required.

Note: Right now, the Commercial Interiors Library Extension cannot always handle materials the way you expect because of software limits. The main problem comes up when a material needs to be stretched (scaled) or repeated across a surface. CET usually repeats materials instead of stretching them, which sometimes causes issues.

There is also a technical limit: CET can only show up to 18 million pixels for one material area. This limit depends on the whole surface, not just one side, which makes it hard to know exactly when problems will show up.

Short-term solution
If you need a material to be stretched (scaled), you can resize your material image yourself to match the size of the surface. This is not perfect and may lower the quality, but it can help for now.

Future plans
We are looking into adding a clear choice in the system so you can decide if a material should repeat or scale. This will take planning and time, but future versions of our platform are expected to handle this better.