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Hello, I am wondering how to add a material to a component (structural gluelam beam) that will rotate when you rotate the component. Here I what happens. Apply material to component which displays fine as long as the component is horizontal but when I rotate it to become a roof rafter the material stays horizontal. Is there anyway to make the material follow the direction of the beam?
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You need to assign the material to the beam itself in the beam properties. Select the beam, go to properties, adjust the Beam Material accordingly.
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I have tried that and it still puts the material in horizontally. Am I missing something?
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I think you are talking about a pattern. Try using the align tool by selecting the sloped beam edge then a horizontal line in the pattern.
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It is actucally a accurender texture.
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create youre own acurender texture from a photo and rotate the photo image to the required angle before creating the texture.
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That is what I ultimitely did but it seems that you should be able to put in a accurender texture and regardless of what it is applied to should rotate with the component. It seems to be pretty complicated if I wanted to have a bunch of componenets at different roof pitches to create a texture for each one.
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If you place the cursor over the material and cycle the Tab key do any of the material lines highlight? If so you can select a line in the material and rotate or again use the align tool. If you post the material we can have a look. Are you talking about a shaded view, rendered view or both?
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It doesnt show up in shaded veiw only when rendered so I cant select anything.
Post edited on 2005-12-08 12:04:06
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This is the jpeg I am using for the accurender texture.
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Generally materials will align perpendicular to the plane of your extrusion/sweep solid.
Not sure why your beams material is doing what they're doing, could be to do with how the beam was created/extruded/swept?
Short term fix is, as suggested create a duplicate material with the jpg image rotated in accurender.
Long term fix would be to recreate the beams using sweeps and voids.
HTH.
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Mr. Spot, did the material rotation trick, just didnt know if there was a reason that this is happening. Using the gluelam beams that were packaged with the program. Thanks for your input it is always appreciated.
John Fleming
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