Tiling Walls??

[hvac2000]

:mad:
CA X1!
I am trying to tile bathtub walls but not the full wall on the sides of the tub, only 1/3 the length wise and also I only want to tile about half way up. I tried to select one wall in 3D and I selected wall coverings but it did the whole room except from the ceiling down. NEED HELP! I did go into wall covering section and all I see there to design tile is
Top to Ceiling, Width, and Floor To bottom. How can all this great looking tile work I seen be done with only these three settings especially If I only want to tile 1/3 the length of 1 wall?

Someone said choose the
'wall>open dbx>materials tab and add you texture there' what is dbx and where is it located. Sorry to bother you guys with these dumb problems I have!

I only seen where you can tile inches from the ceiling down and from the floor up but how can I tile a wall only SO many inches deep?

Also in 3D I can select the bathtubs back wall and partial right wall but I cannot select the left long wall. It selects the outside wall behind it. PROBLEMS PROBLEMS!LOL

[Tommy Blair]

I use polyline solids from an elevation. I don't use the wallpaper tool for this because that tool does the whole wall and is flush with the sheetrock which doesn't look right to me. You can shape it how you want with solids.

[lbuttery]

I tried to select one wall in 3D and I selected wall coverings but it did the whole room except from the ceiling down.

You should be able to do this with the wall dbx, wall coverings tab settings.

Lew

[hvac2000]

Can you expand further in some detail on the solid polyline. I did select make room polyline but I see know change. I went to 3D render view and there is no change. I looked in the reference manual and I do not see anything related to tiles woth polylines. I never used polylines what is polylines. Thanks for your time.

[dcdavis]

Try soffits

[ChiefChris]

2 good threads on tiling with polyline solids.

one.

two.

[dshall]

There are several ways of tiling walls,
1. Change the type of wall in dbx
2. Polyline solids over the walls
3. select wall<wall Covering and then add a wall covering (inside or outside)

This also works for changing the gable end material. However, as you can see in the pic. , the siding patern still shows thru on gable end. It is as if the wall covering is transparent so the siding pattern shows thru.

[dshall]

Oh, and a fourth way

4 molding polyline

[hvac2000]

I must be totally missing this!

I still dont understand. I looked in the 1200 page reference manual for solid polylines but It is not clear on how to use it for tile, I onle see for molding.

What do you mean change the wall to solid polyline. What is dbx?

Is there a step by step on how to tile using poly lines to tile anywhere. I tried making polylines but there invisible and flat and big.

What are the steps. Thanks for the feedback. great program but can be complicated. LOL

[dshall]

Take elevation of a wall, draw a rectangle on the wall, convert to polyline solid, give it a thickness of 1", change material.

[Jim-H]

The polyline solid is just a 3d shape that you create to place on the wall. Like a piece of paneling that you assign a tile like material to. Create the solid to cover the area you want and make it about 1/4" thick. Will need to create one for each area you want to cover. BTW, dbx is just a shorthand for dialog box.

[hvac2000]

Yes I understand that. But when I am in 3D rendering picture where do I select this polyline at to put on the wall. I think I tried it but it looks to be invisible when I release the mouse. I must be missing somehing.

I am in 3D render mode. I went to Build<Primitive<Polyline Solid
when I draw on the wall nothing appears. I kind of see a flat rectangle then I realease the mouse and disappears.
Just for the **** of it.
I went to Build<Primitive<3D Box i can build a box on the floor. I tried the Polyline solid and it disapears again.

Am in the right area? You guys seem to be experienced and skip the easy steps. I must not be doing it right.
There is something I must be doing wrong. Some selection somewhere.


AFTER THE FACT
I went back to the 3D and now it does show the polyline rectangle kind of invisible it is flat above the floor. For some reason it was not there before. If I right click on it a dbx of Polyline specs pops up. It still is not on the wall. I am getting closer to figuring this out. Thanks

[dshall]

Draw in elevation mode or back clip section mode, not 3D render mode

[hvac2000]

Dumb question!
Where is elevation mode or back clip?'

[Jim-H]

In the Vector View tools.

It sounds like you need to RTFM and maybe watch some of the videos.