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Ok, i'm looking at creating a simple Board & Batten hatch patern on my walls for elevation purposes. Now though the only solution that has been posted was to add a surface poly, trace out the openings (not posible when window trim is complex (ie: cheesy victorian) and then apply a associative hatch. Ok now, i've been using Autocad since DOS, and I might as well draw my elevation in 2D since it would be less painfull (select a bounded region and remove island.voila it's done in ACad).

Someone tell me there is a better way or will there at least eventually be, if not I will buy Archicad Start edition I guess. Just started on my own and trying to figure out what software to migrate towards. Thanks for any insight. Thanks Archoncad, so I now hatched my elevations but when I use the same method on my pretty perspective views of my model It does not give an acceptable result (ie: hatch is not rendered/tapered to follow perspective) Side note; have you seen Archicad how you can apply a hatch with a color hue or even a wood pattern behind it right in the walls creation dialog box?

That's what i'd like to do with Vectorworks. Are you aware if Vectorworks will add this maybe in a future version? It's kind of important to be able to freely design and create new innovative bldg cladding.like some blue'ish Zinc fish scales as an example. Hi Robert, I have renderworks but the only adjustable parameters for walls are image maps that I can adjust hue, reflection, refraction, transparency etc (basically Photoshop stuff). Besides, there isn't a Board & Batten siding texture pattern available with the program, and if there was I'd probably want to modify the vertical line spacing because I usually design Board & Batten with an alternating space pattern to make things more interesting.(ex:6' board then 8' then a 4') I don't like chasing bitmaps or jpeg's of what I'm trying to create as a bldg cladding pattern, it's much more convenient to simply be able to draw it.but not one line at a time.

In addition, when I do construction plans they are black and white line drawings for the workers on site (imagine the cost of printing colored images). I guess what I'm trying to say is that most architects will want to create custom surfaces using a combination of a customizable vectorial hatch in conjunction with a texture. Check out this video to see what I mean.

Fritsch, I think if you do a search of this forum you will find a lot of info and debate on this exact topic. Some of it gets rather heated. Start with this which will hopefully give you an idea as to how you can get a very similar result to what you're after. Vikrojka kartuza. Perhaps not perfect, but hopefully acceptable. FWIW, this elevation was created from a 3d model, and in perspective views shows full color which is part of the siding and roofing textures. I got the Elevation to show as B&W by printing to PDF and choosing a Grayscale Filter. You can also do this in Photoshop or similar.