Custom modular brick pattern import issue.

[howaboutdave]

I wrote a .pat file for a modular brick model pattern with grout joints. I wrote it in MM because I wanted it to be as precise as I could get it to course correctly at 3 courses = 8" and one brick length + joint = 8"; writing it in MM allows for fewer decimal places to get that precision since the grout joints are included.

Anyways, when importing the .pat file, if I import it at 1:1 scale the horizontal lines become continuous but if I import at a smaller scale such as .5:1 then the pattern comes in correctly. I'm out of ideas as to why this happens. Anyone have any insight?

Thanks!
Dave

Here is the pattern text:

;%UNITS=MM
*Modular Brick
;%TYPE=MODEL

0, 0, 0, 101.6, 67.7333, 193.2, 10
0, 0, 57.7333, 101.6, 67.7333, 193.2, 10
90, 0, 0, 67.7333, 101.6, 57.7333, -77.7333
90, 193.2, 0, 67.7333, 101.6, 57.7333, -77.7333

[hugh.69031]

Aside from any scaling issue, you have specified a line-down segment joining the horizontal lines.
The expected gap will appear if you make the last item of each of the first two lines negative, like this:


;%UNITS=MM
*Modular Brick
;%TYPE=MODEL

0, 0, 0, 101.6, 67.7333, 193.2, -10
0, 0, 57.7333, 101.6, 67.7333, 193.2, -10
90, 0, 0, 67.7333, 101.6, 57.7333, -77.7333
90, 193.2, 0, 67.7333, 101.6, 57.7333, -77.7333



hth,

Hugh Adamson

www.hatchkit.com.au (http://www.hatchkit.com.au)

[howaboutdave]

Hugh,

Awesome! Thank you very much. That did the trick.


-Dave