Adjust Material Def (rainbow tool)

[winterdd]

I am not good with this tool, I can get some brick courses to look halfway decent but forget about it when it comes to arches. How do you guys get this to look symmetrical and follow the arch. Shown below is a polyline solid arch I made after trying to use a door lintel with a 5/8" thickness and it going nuts when I applied the brick course material. 

 

The lines should be perpendicular and not 90 deg.                                      It's nearly impossible to make all lintels symmetrical when you mess with the adjust material def tool

[TeaTime]

1 hour ago, winterdd said:

How do you guys get this to look symmetrical and follow the arch.

Not by just applying a material. Materials images, as you're seeing here, are repeated (sort of) globally, so the same material applied to two different objects will line up. Or, like if you size an object to match a material's image, then move that object, its material looks shifted.

As for Soldier Course bricks specifically, Chief has an article on this:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00797/creating-a-soldier-course.html

 

And, naturally, this comes up here quite often:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/search/?default_tab=forum&q=soldier+course&page=1

Tons of tips

 

The other issue you're encountering is how some objects have a direction that is not entirely obvious til you hit it with a texture that has a clear direction itself.

Like applying a wood grain texture to something. Polyline solids don't have a direction like molding/trim, casing etc do.

 

When you go to modify a material, you might not want to just use the Adjust Material. That tool changes that one material in all instances where its applied.

So if you rotate it on one thing, you rotate it on all things.

 

Instead, use the Eye Dropper to pick up the source material and use the Copy Selected Material option to create a copy, then rotate the copy 90 degrees so that can be applied to other objects without messing up the first one.

 

But that doesn't apply to Soldier Course arches because there's no way to have a curved object with a clear direction - at least no way to make it look good. Curved Moldings do, but it's not great.

 

 

[winterdd]

Good info TeaTime!