Editing Materials such as Pine wood

[Anonymous]

How do I stop the grain in pine or any other wood with a heavy grain pattern from running into the next board? This picture is actually 4 boards stacked.

[Dwight]

Each board needs its material origin adjusted, otherwise obvious patterns all radiate from the same origin...

Us the Align 3D texture tool to do this.

[Anonymous]

I've found the align 3D Texture, and I see that I must be in 3D mode to get them to highlight, but, not sure how to operate tool.......

[Dwight]

The idea is that once an element - slab roof wall is selected in 3D, you then either Set Origin or Set Direction for it by picking the command in the menu, then clicking on a node of the element to relocate the texture map to begin from that point. In the case of direction, you draw a vector.

Play.

[Stress Co_]

CP wrote:
I've found the align 3D Texture, and I see that I must be in 3D mode to get them to highlight, but, not sure how to operate tool.......

Off topic... but I WISH we could align in elevation views.