Z alignment of Brick Shader texture

[Christiaan]

Does anyone understand what's going on here? I thought the Brick Shader texture was meant to align its coursing to z=0?

Not only is it not aligning to anything in particular where our model starts at z=0, but it has a totally different alignment on another design layer even though this point is at z=1200 (which is a 16 bricks above z=0).

[Christiaan]

When I look directly at the model the texture is fine and aligning as expected in OpenGL and Renderworks.

If I create a Section Viewport with just one design layer the texture aligns correctly. As soon as I add another design layer the texture alignment moves.

[Peter van der Elst]

Yep same here in VW2012... Unfortunately a section viewport isn't interactive so we can't change things directly in the viewport... Or use vector hatches...

[Christiaan]

So it turns out this is a bug with no known workaround.

Have to go tell the main contractor now, no sorry, we can't align the coursing correctly on our elevations.

Not critical, but just another thing that makes our documents look amateur. Wouldn't have had this problem with 2D in VW.

#BIMfail

[bcd]

Have you tried the Attribute Mapping tool to tweak it to place?

(Option+A)

[Christiaan]

Attribute mapping doesn't work on my external walls for some reason (says it doesn't have an editable texture, which is incorrect). In any case I wouldn't want to go around the whole model manually changing the attribute mapping for each wall. Furthermore, the mapping of the texture in the model is fine, it's the viewports where it goes wrong.