topic Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls in Modeling

Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Parky — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:17:03 GMT

Hi all, my first post here so go easy on me!

I'm having trouble trying to create a 3D pattern on my external concrete tilt panel wall with different colours, see attached screenshot. Any ideas? I thought previously i have just used the "profiler" tool, but it just gives one material for the whole wall? And i cant seem to get the "Complex profiler" tool to represent it the way i want it to.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Parky

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:54:08 GMT

It looks like the curtain wall tool would do the trick. You'll have to tweak the frame and panel dimensions, and it will take a bit of trial and error. It's a great tool but quite a bit different from the others.

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Dwight — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:13:28 GMT

And if the curtain wall tool proves too difficult, the complex profile works this way:

For each color of panel, make one complex profile using fills drawn on the wall elevation.

Place this profile as a wall perpendicular to the base wall surface as deep as you want the panels. Like, 1" or so?

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:18:32 GMT

...and yet other ways:

1. Draw the pattern with fills in a worksheet and use a screen shot (or save as) to make a texture to be applied as a material.

2. Model the forms with slabs and save as a library part, which can be applied to the face of the wall or subtracted from it with "use materials of operator" selected.

3. Use Objective... Well I'm not sure it would really work for this but it seems to be the answer to so many other modeling problems

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Dwight — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:26:37 GMT

You really like to make it difficult for newbies.

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:32:10 GMT

Dwight wrote:
You really like to make it difficult for newbies.

What? You want the really hard ways?

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Dwight — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:35:43 GMT

Haven't you covered them all?

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:43:44 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Haven't you covered them all?

Let's see...

SketchUp export to 3DS...

Careful arrangement of freeform windows...

Custom multi-point freeform window object...

Colored marking pens on the screen (or mount a roll of flimsy on top)...

Cigraph addons (Archiforma, Archifaçade, Architiles)...

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Dwight — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:44:46 GMT

You have me on this one.
I can see that i am no match for you.

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:47:46 GMT

You're still beating me by over 1100 posts. Remember back when we were young and 1100 seemed like a lot for a total?

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Dwight — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:50:17 GMT

But you are gaining since the last time Graphisoft stats people called with our rankings, I was 1500 ahead. If this keeps up they are going to take my velveteen computer station, limousine and driver away.

And i am certainly feeling old since walking with a cane.

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:56:56 GMT

Dwight wrote:
But you are gaining since the last time Graphisoft stats people called with our rankings, I was 1500 ahead. If this keeps up they are going to take my velveteen computer station, limousine and driver away.

And i am certainly feeling old since walking with a cane.

Well Karl's still got us both beat on word count. I guess that's why he gets the Bentley and we have to make do with Caddies.

Speaking of canes...www.swordcane.com/burger_swords_home.htm

Feeds into the Errol Flynn fantasies.

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Dwight — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:00:55 GMT

Those aren't canes. They are pimp sticks.

Look at the attachment stats.
Since a picture is worth 1000 words…

Re: Adding patterns & different materials to walls

Steve Jepson — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:56:51 GMT

Parky wrote:
Hi all, my first post here so go easy on me!

I'm having trouble trying to create a 3D pattern on my external concrete tilt panel wall with different colours, see attached screenshot. Any ideas? I thought previously i have just used the "profiler" tool, but it just gives one material for the whole wall? And i cant seem to get the "Complex profiler" tool to represent it the way i want it to.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Parky

How you model anything depends on what you need to do with it.
Do you need your tiltup walls to be in a schedule for volume, surface area etc...?

You can make a chamfer strip just like the ones that will be used on the inside of the froms and use that for SEO on the wall.
For the color, I would copy an elevation view of that wall after you do the SEO and use the magic wand to make very thin (.1" or less) colored slabs for each area. Save them as a .gsm and place them on the wall as one unit.