floor surface pattern rotates

[Anonymous]

I have a floor / roof deck on a sloped plane with a simple surface hatch defined in the material to represent standing seam metal roof. When I mirror the floor the hatch rotates 90 degrees and I can't make it rotate correctly.

Sometimes when I create a roof the hatch is rotated the wrong way. span direction or slope arrow makes no difference. WTH is going on?

[Anonymous]

I realized that I can rotate the pattern so I am able to fix it. I don't know why it rotates it in the first place.

[alan_eu]

Point to your hatch, press TAB until spotlight any line and click it. After that, you are free to rotate it as you like! 🙂

[Pattycake_Kyle]

There are two types of patterns, model and drafting. 

Model patterns you CAN rotate and should be used for things to represent real life size materials. (Bricks, tiles, roof shingles, etc). These stay the same size (in the model) regardless of what scale it is printed at. Therefore 24" would always be scaled to appropriately for 24".

Drafting patterns are printed size based (1/8" equals 1/8" printed on a sheet in the 'real' world) and therefore they change scale with the drawing scale. This means 1/8" will always print 1/8" regardless of drawing scale. These are used for your typical 'pochet' and 'hatch' materials.

[hmunsell]

depending on the material, you can edit the pattern and set the Align with Element option for the pattern. I believe this only works with Drafting Patterns, for Model patterns you can just Tab select it rotate it like you did.