I am trying to create a colorbond roof, I have been thinking of various ways to go about it but have not came up with a suitable solution. I have thought of just texturing the roof with a colorbond material from a bitmap, that creates problems with the direction of the profile of the roof because one material will only tile in one direction, so a different material is need for each face of the roof, I have thought of using a bump map to create depth in a texture to give the effect, but this will also cause problems with tiling, and I have thought of modelling the roof either by using a roof by extrusion or by creating a mass and using roof by face to turn the mass into a roof, The roof by extrusion has problems in that revit doesnt allways like to make extruded roofs with curves in the profile, and revit doesnt appear to let you make an extruded roof with an angled reference plane, and so you might be able to do a flat colorbond roof but i cant see a way to angle it. With using a mass, you can create the angled roof with the correct profile. But this will cause problems as the roof will have to be textured, To texture the roof you will have to use the paint command which only works by selecting faces, If you have ever tried texturing a curved surface with the paint command you would have found its a very hard and tedious exercise because you can only select one face of the object at a time (if your lucky with curved surfaces) as opposed to a program like 3dstudio max where you can texture multiple faces at a time and also select parts of the object by different means other than by face. You can turn the mass into a roof which should allow you to texture it by properties rather than the paint command, but to turn it into a roof you have to select it by face, which causes all the same problems as originally trying to paint it. I have found it very frustrating that revit can only paint objects one face at a time, being able to paint multiple faces at a time would speed things up alot. Can anyone sugest any better ways to texture objects with lots of faces and curves which revit gives you a hard time selecting. And Can anyone please give any other sugestions for creating a colorbond roof or tell of how they may have created one.
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