Wall tiling pattern on fall face problems

[Damo]

I’ve got a Revit family that is not behaving and it’s causing me real problems.

I am trying to show rain-screen tiles. The tiles are represented as lines on the face of a wall. I have various sized panels, all are 14 tiles high and then either 1 – 9 tiles wide.

I have a rain-screen family that has various family types (x1 tile wide, x2 tiles wide etc) and it looks brilliant in the family editor. Works just as I want it to.

However, loading the family into my project and it all goes to pot. There seems to be some misalignment, with the left lines on the surface and the remainder going into the wall.

I cannot work this out and have spend several hours getting nowhere. As I said, the family editor seems to show it correctly.

Any advice would be extremely appreciated.

[sbrown]

Surface patterns don't have the same origin in the family editor as they do when they reach the project(why? who knows) But there is no solution except to use model lines instead of a surf. pattern. and place a request to adsk for a fix.

[Damo]

Surface patterns don't have the same origin in the family editor as they do when they reach the project(why? who knows) But there is no solution except to use model lines instead of a surf. pattern. and place a request to adsk for a fix.Thanks for your reply Scott. I did discover that the surface pattern was being placed within the wall in my earlier attempts, but I think I got this solved.

However, you might have noticed from the 3D image I posted that the vertically grouped lines are incrementally going out of sync, each line to the right is just slightly behind the adjacent line. This is not evident when looking at the family in the family editor.

[rhys]

Changing the lines to model lines does seem to solve the problem as Scott Suggests.
The lines seem to be set up in your family a distance off the wall face presumably to do with the thickness of the wall in the family differing from the wall in a project. Another way to acheve what you are tryng to do might be to draw a second thin wall with the rainscreen tiles set up as a surface pattern, this pattern can be edited as required around windows using the wall edit profile tool. The pattern can also be aligned in each panel This is how I do bathroom tiling. If you wanted windows to cut through both walls I think they would have to be set up with voids rather than with the window template opening.

[Damo]

Here are 2 images of the completed facade, both of which I sought assistance under this thread and this one http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=6517 (Terracotta Rainscreen with steel channels)

Thanks to all who gave me guidance.

[sbrown]

Very nice, I assume you are using some groups in this model. Are you running into any issues?

[PeterJ]

Looks very nice indeed, Damain.

[Damo]

Very nice, I assume you are using some groups in this model. Are you running into any issues?No groups for the elevations.

I did use groups for the furniture layouts, and came across a really strange problem. Worked OK for the first 5 floors paste aligning to each level. However, on the 6th floor some of the objects in the group pasted OK to the 6th floor whilst others in the group were on the 7th Floor! Properties for the group said they were on the 7th Floor with an offset of +3000 (which would have made them on the 8th Floor, but weren't)

Revit Support had a look and said it will be resolved in the next release.