Wall surface pattern

[kwong]

Hi all,
I made a wall surface pattern of horizontal lines 600mm apart and I want the pattern to start a certain distance from the top of the wall. Is there a way to set it globally so I don't have to align it every time I draw a wall? Thanks.
kwong

[blads]

Hi all,
I made a wall surface pattern of horizontal lines 600mm apart and I want the pattern to start a certain distance from the top of the wall. Is there a way to set it globally so I don't have to align it every time I draw a wall? Thanks.
kwong
Without setting it globally the easiesy way I know to apply a surface pattern 600mm from the top of the wall would be to split the wall face desired, then apply "paint" using the paintbrush - tedious but it works.

Setting it globally, would require the creation of a stacked wall (I think???).

[sbrown]

You can in the wall properties>structure>edit, preview.section, split the face fo the wall a set dim from the top of the wall and change the material of the top section to something else, this should get your pattern to start where you want.

[Chirag Mistry]

If it is a model pattern, align will work.

[eddy.lermytte]

In addition
if you plan to change the pattern's distance from top ... consider to lock the patterns after aligning ... that way they will go up or down "globally"

[kwong]

Thanks all who replied. I think I might give Scott's suggestion a go as aligning will take forever as all the walls have been drawn and I don't want to have to go around aligning each one!!!

Scott,
I tried what you suggested but couldn't assign different patterns to the split regions - every time I assign one pattern to one region it gets assigned to the other. What am I doing wrong?