To rotate a material s pattern.
Chief architect change flooring direction.
In your designs you may want to divide a room using different floor materials.
How can this be done.
If you would like to adjust the offset of the pattern you can also do.
Click on the open object edit tool to display the room specification dialog and go to the materials panel.
Specify the desired angle to which you would like to rotate the material s pattern.
In the next dialog that opens select the edit.
Specifying joist direction and where joists are cut.
Joist direction lines specify joist direction and bearing lines define the boundaries for joist direction.
In vector views materials are represented using patterns.
Return to the plan materials dialog select your custom material and click the edit button.
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Answer you can specify the direction that joists build using a joist direction line however this will force all the joists sharing a floor platform area i e all floors or ceilings at the same elevation to build in the direction specified.
Select floor finish and click on the select material button.
This displays the select material dialog where you can select the modified material and ok to apply it.
On the pattern panel of the define material dialog.
Mixing joist depths and directions on the same floor.
From the menu select edit default settings.
Question i want to change the direction of floor or ceiling joists in a certain area of my plan.
Once one of these options is selected click on the edit button.
Click ok once more in the room specification dialog to set the change to the flooring material and close it.