Material alignment issue

[Anonymous]

I have an issue with the alignment of materials. I have a wood pattern on the floors.The top and bottom floors are taking different alignments as given in the attached image.Is there a solution to align them in similar way-without creating a new material?

[Redrunner92]

Select whichever floor which has the orientation you would like to change, then hit your tab key, then click on the floor element. If you look closely, or zoom in to the floor's edge (a cut edge will work, such as you have cut in the attached image), you will see a grey outline of the top face of the floor, and the floor element will be shown as selected in your properties palette. At this point, use the Rotate tool to rotate the floor's top layer 90 degrees. This will rotate the finish layer without rotating the shape of the floor element. 

[barthbradley]

Rotate it.  

[TripleM-Dev.net]

Hi,

See the solutions of @Redrunner92 and @barthbradley, but this will only work if the material has a model surface pattern.

Switch over to a Hidden/Shared view and tab select one of the Model pattern lines of the surface

Now you can rotate and/or move the line of the pattern, the Render pattern follows these edits.

Note: if the model pattern is removed from the material the orientation of the render material is also reset to it's default position.

- Michel

[barthbradley]

I'm showing an IMAGE -- not a Model Pattern. I am pretty sure that is what the OP is showing as well.  

[TripleM-Dev.net]

That's correct, but you're only able to rotate the image pattern because the material surface has a model pattern (not shown in view, correct)

The tab select in the Render view picks the first model pattern line it finds (even though it's not visible in the view) and this is why the image pattern also rotates, relative from the Render appearance setting of course.

Test it, use a material without a surface pattern, the image pattern can't be rotated or moved with the Tab select mode.

- Michel

[barthbradley]

😉

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply.Yes.The appearance image.Is creating a nee material the only option?

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much for your reply.Will try that!

[TripleM-Dev.net]

Hi,

I'm not able to rotate the image appearance rotation without the model pattern trick.

Tried Revit 2019 and 2020?

The only way to do it is to actually rotate the floor itself and change the floorboundary back after the rotation.

- Michel

[barthbradley]

Yes! It's an old school hack. Rotate the Floor with the Appearance Image --  and then edit the Sketch Boundary.