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Hi there - I've built this floor pattern already, but the way I did it was so slow that I wonder if anyone has a more efficient way of building it.

The first way I built this pattern, was by creating a series of thin tiles, that were the shapes as shown in the attachment. This worked fine, but was slow when I copied and pasted each tile. [Each tile was loaded with info i.e. material etc - but seems strange it was so slow]. 

I've done some searching on the forums too - and see lots of people suggesting to use filled regions or split face. Neither of these are suitable for this (as I see it).

Basically, I am wondering if someone can suggest a way in which I build a series of the tiles, before mirroring them (as the patterns can obviously all be mirrored). I need to get a high quality render, with realistic woodgrain - there can be two types of materials used (to show up the pattern and give some realistic feel), not like the original one where the two wood colours are completely different. 

Thanks to anyone that can assist! Much appreciated....

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CRB14

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Hi, thanks for response. I'm sorry but I don't understand -'create a pattern up down stroke' - what is this?

I also searched for 'pattern' in the forum, but there are so many and most explain about filled regions or split faces. if you can help that would be great, thanks

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CRB14

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It could be you are talking about me using a model pattern

i.e.

180,  -0,  -0,             12.75,         6,             3,             -2.5,          3.5,           -1.5,          4.5,           -2

180,  -3,  -0.25,          12.75,         6,             2.5,           -9.5,          2,             -3

180,  -9,  0.375,        12.75,         6,             1.5,           -15.5

-90,   -0,  -0,             6,             4.25,          5.75,          -18.25

I've also tried figuring this out by I'm way out of my depth and the pattern didn't work as I needed it to (my lack of intelligence) so would like to avoid it, thanks

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The hatch in this case doesn't need to be complicated at all.  looking at your attached image, it looks like there is one narrow hatch, and one slightly wider hatch.  They only need to be simple horizonal-lined model hatches, which you can create within revit.  one with a 6" spacing, one with 8", or something like that. 

The fun part is going to be using "split face" to break up for floor into those different regions.  Then, painting with your hatched red and black materials.  (you'll need 4: thin red, thick red, thin black, thick black)  And now the fun part is:  To rotate a hatch on the surface, all you have to do is hover over a hatch line, and hit tab, and you can select it.   Once you have one line of a hatch selected, you can move, align, and rotate the whole pattern within that region.  

Hope that helps.  

edit:  oh.  well, the alternating red/black would be difficult.  but you can achieve the hidden line paterning easilly as described above. 

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