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?

[Karl Ottenstein]

Tom wrote:
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?

Hi Tom,

This command works for me in 8.1R2+ with either the OpenGL or Internal engine, and with the Internal, vectorial hatching doesn't have to be on (you just can't see what you did with it off).

Note: you cannot align the texture of a (GDL) object - only basic elements (walls, roofs, etc.) This may be part of what's happening in your case?

Karl

[Tom Krowka]

I'm trying to do it with a ceiling slab that has wood strips running in the wrong direction. That's not considered an object, is it?

Maybe I'll try it again after a reboot. Perhaps I'm out of smart little memories.

[Dwight]

Sometimes, when a material just won't behave, duplicating the material with the texture appropriately rotated within the material mapping will solve the problem.

That is, sonny, what we did in the old days.

[Tom Krowka]

Well, pops, this is not the good ol days anymore. Either it works as advertised, the help and the books should be more accurate, or there is a problem that needs to be corrected.

I do not intend to flame you. I've been using this program for almost a year now; it's very difficult to teach oneself using the forum and the books and still try to meet production deadlines and make a few bucks in the meantime.

[Dwight]

So, is this a go-around where we complain to each other, or actually try to help manage the situation with the tools we have today, so that, as a community, we can all be more productive.

Go ahead and complain all you like - the new rendering engine solves many of these issues, but perfect surface mapping is hard to achieve in any application.

Have you had success with my suggestion?

[Dwight]

And those old days - they weren't good.

I was so angry when I learned that ArchiCAD couldn't do what I thought were obvious tasks - free-forming of tents, etcetera and such a lousy renderer!

Attached is the first real complex thing I did in ArchiCAD where the model mostly done in hacked GDL and binary stretches was used to build the fiberglass form block.

Huy yuy yuy!

[Dwight]

and the result - in 1997

[Karl Ottenstein]

Tom wrote:
I'm trying to do it with a ceiling slab that has wood strips running in the wrong direction. That's not considered an object, is it?

Maybe I'll try it again after a reboot. Perhaps I'm out of smart little memories.

Hi Tom,

Nope, slabs are elements. I have no problem aligning textures on slabs. Did you check to see if you have grouping suspended or not. That might make a difference? Or if the slab layer is locked, or the slab as an element is locked (Tools menu)?

Karl

[Tom Krowka]

Thanks. I did get it to work finally. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong; I could swear I'm doing the same thing & now it works.