Align 3D texture

[Tom Krowka]

Will this command work with open GL engine setting. I can only get it to become active if I use the internal 3d option. The vectorial hatching has to be turned on (according to the help ); it is greyed out in the open GL setting.
When I marquee an area and go to the 3d window with the internal 3d engine on, only a small portion of the marquee area shows up.
Any suggestions?

[Dwight]

Sometimes when you change the proportion of an element, the system read the "direction" as perpendicular to what it was.

Duh.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Dwight wrote:
Sometimes when you change the proportion of an element, the system read the "direction" as perpendicular to what it was.

Duh.

This is because by default the main direction of the 3D Hatch aligns with the longest side of the element. See attached picture. Slab on left is 5 meters by 4 meters. Slab on right is 3,8 meters by 4 meters (horiz/vert).

[Dwight]

I knew that.

[Jefferson]

Laz,

D*mn! I didn't! Sometimes I'm concentrating so much on the complex things I drive right on by the simplest ones..............Thanx!