Aligning texture in 2D

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody, I'm trying to do some fine-tuning on my presentation plans for a submittal and need some help...

The model I've been working on has traditional Italian sloping roofs finished with clay roof-tiles. One one side of the building, I had to create two different roof slabs one after another, mainly because they are going to be built in different ways and have therefore different composite structure and thickness.
If you'd look at the roof from above, however, you'd notice no difference at all as they're both finished with the traditional roof tiles. Here I have two questions:

1) Is there a way to align the roof texture in 2D (the hatch, basically) the same way I did in the 3D view?

2) How can I get rid of the line separating the two types of roof slabs?

Thank you very much for your help!
(as always!)

Enrico

[Erika Epstein]

Enrico wrote:
1) Is there a way to align the roof texture in 2D (the hatch, basically) the same way I did in the 3D view?

2) How can I get rid of the line separating the two types of roof slabs?

Enrico

Many of us model the roof with 2 pieces, one is the roof sheathing which has the roof finish, clay tiles in your example as the top material. See screenshot for cover fill settings.

Underneath on a separate layer I have the roof framing.
- This allows a continuous roof surface which addresses yours second question.
- allows roof structure to vary in size and type

The roof sheathing will extend out as the overhang. You can have the overhang roof structure and/or a trim below it. The trim would be on a layer that is on only in sections and elevations, not 2D.

HTH

[Anonymous]

Thank you!

[Karl Ottenstein]

And, if you use the roof accessories to place physical clay tiles, Duane Valencia noted some years ago that to get these tiles to align, the roof pivot lines of the 'matching' roofs must align with one another.

(Beware: adding the real tiles looks great, but adds a huge number of polygons to 3D [slow] and a lot of linework to a PDF. So, if you need some close-up views where the tiles show, have them on their own layer that you can turn off for other views ... in which just the texture or fill pattern applied to the underlying roof will show.)

Cheers,
Karl