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[Sam Morgan]

I see we have a new feature somewhere that gives the ability to have a siding look like a real board and batten.  None of the textures in the manufacturer libraries look very realistic even though many of them are named board and batten or in a library with that name.  The thing we're lacking is any kind of instruction on the new feature.  I can't find anything in any menus, nothing on this forum, nothing in softplan youtube tutorials, etc.  How is this procedure done?

[Mark Petri]

My understanding is you add a vertical material to your wall definition and link it to a profile much like you would add a stud, adding the profile to dictate the look. Now that I think of that, I wonder if we can add steel profiles or anything else to our wall definitions that will be more detailed than a typical block for a stud. I have not checked it out yet, but you've inspired me to look into it more when I have a moment.

[John Pepper]

Have a look at the as shipped board and batten wall definitions. You will see that the board and batten material in the wall definition has a siding profile of Board and batten and the vertical profile checked.

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[Martin Wrobel]

The ability to add board and batten vertical profile work great when viewing the model in 3D views. The problem i have with it is does not show the board & batten when using the new annotated mode. Or am I doing something wrong?