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Larz

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I'm fairly new to revit and I'v been looking through the forum trying to find out how to draw a realistic weatherboard cladding on my drawing.

I tryed taking the 30mm weatherboard id allowed for in the walls ive drawn and tryed to draw a seperate 30mm wall and edit it in a elevation view which doesnt work.

Ive tryed to figure out how to make it using a wall sweep which i cant get to work.

So far i found some images and have just tryed to make the cladding as a flat material which doesnt look good...

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psymon

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We will presume you are using Revit 2009?

Forgive me if I am wrong, but you seem to be trying to model a weatherboard profile (in 3d) and have that as your wall?

I wouldn't do this, it will cause you no end of headaches and make you model difficult to edit and slow..... (the same way that you don't model roof profiles)

We show such walls the follwing way:

Make you wall type and have a material with a model surface pattern of 300mm lines. This will work for all of your construction drawings and basic hidden line drawings.

If you wish to do presentation drawings choose a  material that is a weatherboard material and when you render it will use bump maps to cerate the illusion of a 3d profile.

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Larz

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Thanks for replying.

Im using Revit Architecture 2008.   My walls are 10mm interior 90mm stud core and 30mm weather board exterior .... i used the horizontal pattern awhile ago but found it didnt come out in the rendered drawing... Is there no way i can draw a wall and edit it to look like 3d weatherboard and just have a finish colour as the material

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What you say is correct.

When you create a material it has two types of properties, those you see in the hidden and shaded mode and then there are the accurender properties (how it looks in a render) you need to set a weatherboard material in the accurender dialouge box.

setting > materials >appearance > accurender

I will not give lessons on how to do this but look in the help files.

There is absolutely no need to model the profile.

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