As the title says: where is the best place to draw a tile-pattern?
I've seen that in the dataset-building-example it's drawn in the 3D-model, but is this the best place to draw this with a dynamic-view setup?
I've also noticed that when i want to draw an 'associative pattern', this gets filled (fill:none, also tried 'hole' without effect) and fill follows the pattern-color, so I can't see the lines in the dynamic generated drawing (unless I choose the wireframe-view, but this is not always an option I guess). When I put the pattern non-associative (as in the dataset-building-example...) I can see the lines, but this is very unproductive in my eyes when I need to change the pattern-area.
I also was thinking about geometric maps, but this seems a bit unflexible on first sight, no?
Great :) This info is very useful.
thank you
I do it as a thin slab equal to the thickness of the flooring and this does several things.
Give me a Finished Floor Elevation that I can building things like stairs or other flooring to.
Give me a section that is correct for many details - just annotate
Give me a rendered pattern as long as it is nto a specific designed-pattern
And then give me a forward view as long as it is not a psecific designed pattern.
I would do this always and then if it was somethign specific I would either:
Either create a pattern in Phontoshop and drape it upon hte shape or
Just create the pattern tile by tile.
All depends on what you want in the final product.
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From a naive POV (haven't tried anything like, yet) I'd assume the tiling wd be modeled as a thin slab on top of the structural slab and screed? Slab+screed might be a Compound Part but tiling an independent Part because its centreing has to be adjusted (not just wallpaper pattern) and it may be divided into different size/type tile areas. Screed thickness may need to be different anyway in tiled areas vs carpeted. If walls move so slab extent changes, tiling as separate Part/element will auto-adjust same as structural slab/screed? No?
It may just be if you have the same part (Granite TIle Green) that for the one that is special you just apply a material. It still stays that part but you define a blank material. It screws with the rendering but if you need that you'd do it another way.
Michael,
Yes, that's a little disadvantage, I think. I'm not very used to use Materials and Geometry Maps. But what I know, for every kind of Pattern/Material or scale of the crosshatch distance you have to create a new Material and Part. That's what I did.
And this list will grow in future I guess.