Walls with the same material not displaying the same

[tntdraftsol]

Greetings,

I am modeling an existing building and I wanted to use a photo I took of the vertical metal siding as a material for the exterior finish of my model wall. I brought the photo into Photoshop and cropped it down to what I wanted of the vertical metal siding pattern. I then duplicated a siding material in revit and added the cropped photo as a custom image to the Relief Pattern pulldown under the Appearance tab in the Materials dialog box.

I had to tweak the image a little in Revit to get it to show correctly on the wall I happened to be near in my 3D view, but once it showed up right I thought I was good. I then panned to another area of the building that has the same exterior finish material as the wall I previously changed and found that my image was not showing up on these other walls even though as I said they have the exact same exterior finish material. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? any help would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks!

[MikeJarosz]

I had the same problem with a simple brick bond pattern. Every time I changed the view, some surfaces would show brick, some would not. If I change the view again, areas that did not, now do! The underlying data was all brick, but it would not display in all circumstances.

The most plausible explanation I got, right here on AUGI, is that it was a display card issue. I have a Revit-approved card, but maybe not enough memory. Whatever.......I never solved it.