Best way to do tiling so the tile patterns align at the wall and floor junctions?

[Anonymous]

Hey guys i am currently trying to learn how to do wall and floor tiling the best way. So far i have tried doing it with both the paint tool for the floor and walls and also by modeling mass with the flooring tool and the walls with model in place as the flooring tool wont work on walls.

I am using a tile pattern 250mm x 250mm and the issue i am having is that the wall patterns arent aligning with the floor patterns, these grout lines (we call them in australia) need to align.  Can you guys please let me know the best way to do this?

[L.Maas]

For tiling I tend to you use a floor material with surface pattern (model pattern type) for the tiles. When floor is placed you can move the surface pattern to align it with objects.

In rare cases I have created a Revit family with 3d tiles which where parametrized so that I could influence tile size, grout spacing and so on. However this should be avoided when possible due to being too heavy on a project and quite a lot of work to get done.

[RDAOU]

@Anonymous 

Model Pattern should suffice to do what you described ... Edit material and set a Model Pattern instead of Drafting

[Anonymous]

I have used the floor tool for the floors and model in place for the walls as the floor tool cant bed used for walls.

I cant edit the patterns like you are showing here to align.

So what tools are you suggesting i apply them them with? Floor and model in place or different?

Also i need to have a material allocated to it for rendering reasons

thanks

[Anonymous]

how do you move the surface pattern?

Also the floor tool doesnt work for walls what did you use to do the walls?

[RDAOU]

@Anonymous 

I use floor tool to create several floors...and walls tool to create walls! which revit version have you got LT?

[Anonymous]

Im using revit full.

I to used the floor tool for walls.

when you are are saying you used the wall tool how did you apply the pattern to the wall?

did you just draw say a new 10mm thick wall next to an existing wall? 

[RDAOU]

@Anonymous 

they are two different elements and each has its own material...Apply the surface pattern to the Material of the Wall and to the material of the Floor.

you do not need to add a new wall in front of the existing you can apply it to the finish layer of the existing

[RDAOU]

@Anonymous 

Here maybe this makes it more clear

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

 sorted it out, the best way i think is to use the floor tool for the floor and then use the wall tool to add a new 10mm thick wall (only one layer of tiles) ontop of the adjacent wall.

This is easier then doing the integrated wall splits ect in the structure tab within the wall system family and it gives you more control

[Anonymous]

and thank you all for your help you helped alot much appreciated

[martijn_pater]

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@Anonymous wrote:

how do you move the surface pattern?

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FWIW You can tab-select the model pattern to move/rotate and/or use the align tool to do so. Or in case the pattern is inside a family possibly you need to adjust it in the family editor (not relevant to your situation though).

[Anonymous]

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Hi john.wallace81,

You have a private message from DR.RD.

Subject: Tiling

Body:

So the whole conversation and the Screen captures (none of which seem to have given you any clue) and you had no idea what we were talking about all along

and then you figured it all out 

 ... 

I will keep that in mind next time you post a question...saves me lots of trouble

glad your issue got sorted out

[rita.raad.ai]

hey everyone,

i have a problem in revit and enscape 

when i modify pattern in material (revit); 

in enscape they appear another design 

can someone help me ?

[HaleyKendrick]

very helpful... my material was on drafting pattern type MODEL pattern type is key word.