Vector Fills - origin problem

[Anonymous]

This question may be dumb, and may well have been covered here before, but here goes anyway...

EXPLANATION ; A colleague is working on a project with many (8) housetypes and wants to see the brickwork coursing in his elevations. As is commonplace here in the UK he has set window/door heads and cills to correspond with brickwork courses and has set his walls to correspond with storey heights that are a multiple of brick courses, but the vectorial fills in his elevations don't start at the base of the wall, so the windows and doors look as if they at the wrong height in the wall. N.B this is not a rendering, just a section/elevation.

QUESTION: Is there an easy way to set the origin of the vector fill (representing brick coursing) so that it starts at the base of the wall, not slightly offset as it seems to do in the preset ArchiCAD vector fills for brickwork? Any example or purpose-made fills would be much appreciated, especially as - as usual - is a rush job!

[Daniel Lindahl]

Daniel,

The menu is listed in 'Design/Align 3D Texture'. The command you want is "Set Origin..."

Thanks Nicholas!

That did the trick! I hadn't seen the command because I was looking for it in the Edit menu, where Link had said to find it. I stupidly didn't think to look in the other menus! Link's post was a few years old, and I see now that in AC9 it WAS in the Edit menu, the Design and Document menus hadn't been invented yet 🙂.

[David Shorter]

the align texture is good but I think the real issue is that the texture should relate to the wall by default.
The log detail workaround goes someway but as Daniel points out the horizontal alignment is not there.
I think that as a default the wall texture/hatch should start at the bottom left hand corner of any wall placed.
I know this will not work in every situation but it would cover 90% of most situations and 100% of any brick or block project.
The only thing that setting the hatch/texture to the project origin will guarantee is that it wont be correct.
Comments anyone?

[Ray Brown]

Recently went hunting for this tool again and found the Align 3D Texture command is now in the Document/Creative Imaging menu tree. If you are viewing vectorial fill in elevations or sections you need to switch to 3d window and and choose a vectorial 3D View Option.

RB