# Material positioning **URL:** \ **Category:** SketchUp\ **Tags:** materials\ **Created:** [September 25, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463 "2025-09-25T16:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ridicholas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ridicholas/32/30692_2.png) [@ridicholas](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ridicholas)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/1 "2025-09-25T16:44:17Z")
cant get texture to align or snap to axis’s; positioning tool rotates inaccurately, cannot rotate custom angles; why does the texture apply off axis? ---
**Author:** ![DanRathbun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/danrathbun/32/500_2.png) [@DanRathbun](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DanRathbun)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/2 "2025-09-25T17:26:48Z")
What SketchUp version? Your forum profile does not have a version. ---
**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/3 "2025-09-25T17:36:25Z")
Post your model. ---
**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/5 "2025-09-25T18:41:15Z")
I’m out of the office now, I’m sure someone else will come along and have look. Assumption: you have applied the texture to a face and not a component. Have you tried right clicking on the face and going to Texture\>Position and then reset, or right click again and select reset? ---
**Author:** ![DaveR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/daver/32/7601_2.png) [@DaveR](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DaveR)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/6 "2025-09-25T18:48:00Z")
Your tile texture on the floor is displaying aligned to the edges of the texture image so it’s doing what it should. This is the texture image opened in an imaged editor. ![Screenshot - 9_25_2025 , 1_39_05 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/d/4/d43f715e609f040b0ba40c2ee6785c0664ea6649.png) It doesn’t help that your model is located at around 745 feet from the origin and rotated off axis either. You should keep the model close to the origin. Here I’ve moved the model to the origin and aligned it with the model axes. Rotated the texture works fine then. ![tile](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/8/a/8a9cd040795533cd97beb42fd25a96eedf38e112.gif) What version of SketchUp are you using? Are you still using El Capitan as the operating system? Please complete and update your forum profile. ---
**Author:** ![ateliernab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ateliernab/32/198399_2.png) [@ateliernab](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ateliernab)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/7 "2025-09-25T18:50:51Z")
> [@DaveR](#): > > It doesn’t help that your model is located at around 745 feet from the origin and rotated off axis either. You should keep the model close to the origin. yeah, I was recording this just as you were answering. turns out, the material IS aligned with the axis. just… with the original axis, not the one you moved. ![Capture d’écran 2025-09-25 à 20.49.01](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/b/1/b12ee239a82e7291ed1e41ca9d7e60a63cdd6a81.png) ---
**Author:** ![DaveR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/daver/32/7601_2.png) [@DaveR](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DaveR)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/8 "2025-09-25T18:53:50Z")
@ridicholas, yeah, If the tile is supposed to be aligned at 45° in the first place, the axes need to be aligned correctly before you place the texture. ---
**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/10 "2025-09-26T08:44:21Z")
> [@ridicholas](#): > > BOWEN boathouse bath up.skp Your model is not at the origin: ![Screenshot 2025-09-26 at 10.41.56](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/4/b/4b5d94cc033e358a1d57dd83653503715e58a134.png) ![Screenshot 2025-09-26 at 10.41.24](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/8/5/85d1613e34f8419fb8fc6308837d7544d8151afd.png) You really should use groups and components. This will be a mess for you the more you model. ![Screenshot 2025-09-26 at 10.42.45](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/1/d/1da2f628b971c6fb2be6f9768ebcfae1e0c3d48a.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/11 "2025-09-26T08:49:50Z")
I moved your model to the reset axis. I made a copy, I’m not sure what you really want for the floor. I manually rotated the texture in the bathroom on the right to be parallel with the walls. ![Screenshot 2025-09-26 at 10.46.00](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/9/e/9e57938d04e2d6b15ed8e7bfd46b1cd164954df7.jpeg) If you use groups or components the texture comes in based on the axis of the group / component. The shape on the left was made into a group aligned with the axis of the model. The group on the right was rotated first, then made into a group. Note how the texture is changed. ![Screenshot 2025-09-26 at 10.47.28](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/0/4/04d4463f186c7d90109b8c8250db74d5e1fc08a6.jpeg) [BOWEN.skp](https://forums.sketchup.com/uploads/short-url/9nrUSuiuGKqeRa8fSdiq8dIoBQN.skp) (5.4 MB) ---
**Author:** ![ridicholas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ridicholas/32/30692_2.png) [@ridicholas](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ridicholas)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/12 "2025-09-26T09:06:54Z")
Thanks, I like indicating a pattern of 1x1 tile / as in this preliminary concept sketch for a bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/13 "2025-09-26T09:21:30Z")
You might want to review some of the basics: [https://learn.sketchup.com](https://learn.sketchup.com) ---
**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/15 "2025-09-26T11:59:42Z")
Consider building the model in its own file and then bringing that into the landscape / site plan as a component (that you can update / swap out as things change). This will make the house modeling far easier to manage, and you because you are modeling a rectilinear building all the axis can work with the main model axis without needing to have things so spread out and at weird angles. ---
**Author:** ![ridicholas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ridicholas/32/30692_2.png) [@ridicholas](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ridicholas)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/16 "2025-09-26T16:05:20Z")
That multi volume non orthogonal structure was built from separate components in separate files and then placed on the terrain. ---
**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/17 "2025-09-26T16:21:31Z")
Ok. Only seeing the bathroom made it seem (by the distance and angle of the original axis) that maybe you were working on a file that was very far and oddly angled to the axis. ---
**Author:** ![DaveR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/daver/32/7601_2.png) [@DaveR](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DaveR)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/18 "2025-09-26T16:26:09Z")
Based on the information you provided after your initial post, you need to at least orient the axes to align with the edges of the floor in this case. As @ateliernab showed, the axes are not aligned to the geometry you are working on. ---
**Author:** ![ridicholas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ridicholas/32/30692_2.png) [@ridicholas](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ridicholas)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/19 "2025-09-26T16:40:55Z")
I can’t figure this out, the very simple model in question is aligned to the axis’s, the model is at the origin; but the pattern applies at an angle; Using the position tool, the pattern seems to avoid snapping to the axis, or at least does not rotate to the axis accurately. Other tools allow typing in a distance or an angle of rotation, here there are only orthagonal rotation selections of 90 180 270 degrees. Help! ---
**Author:** ![DaveR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/daver/32/7601_2.png) [@DaveR](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DaveR)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/20 "2025-09-26T16:54:18Z")
> [@ridicholas](#): > > the model is at the origin; The model you shared is NOT at the origin. ![Screenshot - 9_26_2025 , 11_48_44 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/f/c/fc903a4a6ee6b06d08aa5b09835096e69af5e6b6.png) You have moved the axes so their intersection is more than 743 feet from the origin. As was already explained, the origin is a fixed point in the model space. By default the model axes cross there. You can move the axes but you cannot move the origin. From the appearance of the texture on the floor in your model it is evident that the model axes were moved between the time you applied the tile texture and you shared the file or you rotated it off axis so it doesn’t align to the edges of the floors. ---
**Author:** ![bmike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/bmike/32/225451_2.png) [@bmike](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/21 "2025-09-26T21:14:52Z")
Did you not read my posts or look at my model that I ‘fixed’ to show you why / how the texture gets applied? I believe tile original tile texture comes in at 45°. If you want it aligned with the origins or parallel with the walls AND you have built your model with some logic you will need to rotate this texture 45° after you place it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/f/2/f2a121500b085ed60806607a82720b092d800bb3.png) [@system](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/material-positioning/340463/24 "2026-03-29T13:57:53Z")
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