topic Re: facade wall material in Modeling

facade wall material

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:37:12 GMT

Please, I need to place more than a single material in a facade wall. How can i do it?

Re: facade wall material

Dwight — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:44:31 GMT

The complex profile lets you assemble several fills that represent different materials - in any extruded shape.

Seecomplex profiles as walls

Re: facade wall material

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:34:04 GMT

in complex profiles, you can even have one fill type with varying material finishes - just add edit points on the fill edge at the location where you want the material to change and then call up the pet pallet for each segment (left-click on specific segment) and use the last button shown on top row to assign a specific material. This has worked well for me on occassion, although it is limited to horizontal layering of materials.

Another technique i've used is to assemble a facade design on a hidden layer from thin elements (walls, slabs etc. with varying materials assigned to them) and use them as as solid operators (with "inherit attributes of operator" selected). This gives more flexibility in the composition of the materials and it relatively easy to edit.

Re: facade wall material

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:48:11 GMT

kombibob wrote:
in complex profiles, you can even have one fill type with varying material finishes... This has worked well for me on occassion, although it is limited to horizontal layering of materials.

You can make vertical alternation by splitting the wall into segments of different profiles. Depending on what you want the curtain wall tool may do the trick as well.