topic Re: Two color profile? in Modeling

Two color profile?

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 02:42:25 GMT

Is there a way to make this separate piece of the profile a different color?
I'm not sure how, but when I first did it, I had it black (the vent) and the
foam cornice detail portion was the stucco color which was brown. I changed the building color to mustard and the foam cornice to white and would like the vent to be the mustard color, but can't figure out how to do it.

Re: Two color profile?

Barry Kelly — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 09:32:47 GMT

In your profile manager right click on the edge that you want to change the colour of.
In the Pet Palette choose the very last top option and that will allow you to change the material on that particular edge.

Barry.

Re: Two color profile?

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 06:25:18 GMT

Barry,

This worked, but it only works for me with a newly created profile. Nothing happened to the profiles that were already placed. Strange to me because when I have edited previously placed profiles in the past the changes were applied to them without having to do them over? In this instance I am having to replace the profiles, or at least control alt. them and then readjust the height. Is there something I missed?

Thanks,

Jonathan

Barry wrote:
In your profile manager right click on the edge that you want to change the colour of.
In the Pet Palette choose the very last top option and that will allow you to change the material on that particular edge.

Barry.

Re: Two color profile?

Barry Kelly — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 06:56:51 GMT

Make sure you are editing an existing profile and then 'store profile' to save the changes.
This will update all placed instances of that profile.
In 17 & 18 it is easy as you can right click on the element in plan/3D and choose "Edit selected profile".
In previous versions you must make sure manually that you are editing the correct profile in the Profile Manager.

I have seen some people select a profile in plan/3D and then right click and choose the option 'Capture profile of Selection'.
This will create a new profile and won't replace existing instances.
This option doesn't seem to be in the context (right click) menu of 17 7 18 any more but it is still in the menu.

Barry.

Re: Two color profile?

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:39:02 GMT

Barry,

I tried this several times with no luck. I selected the profile in the 3d window, right clicked and chose edit selected profile and when it came up
I selected and chose the palette tool we're talking about only to find it already has the color I want from doing it yesterday, but in the model it remains the whitewash color. I tried changing it to another color and then back again with no luck. If I draw a new instance of the profile it has the correct colors, but it won't show on profiles that were already there.
The stored profile has the same name and is the same profile, but it won't
update the previously placed profiles.

Thanks for your help, Jonathan

Barry wrote:
Make sure you are editing an existing profile and then 'store profile' to save the changes.
This will update all placed instances of that profile.
In 17 & 18 it is easy as you can right click on the element in plan/3D and choose "Edit selected profile".
In previous versions you must make sure manually that you are editing the correct profile in the Profile Manager.

I have seen some people select a profile in plan/3D and then right click and choose the option 'Capture profile of Selection'.
This will create a new profile and won't replace existing instances.
This option doesn't seem to be in the context (right click) menu of 17 7 18 any more but it is still in the menu.

Barry.

Re: Two color profile?

James B — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:35:30 GMT

When you set a custom edge in the Profile Editor, then in the Profile Manager palette under "Components - Selected" panel, then the "Use Building Material" will automatically be unchecked and the radio button "Various" will be set. If you select "Uniform" or check the "Use Building Material" then these will remove your overrides.

Also at the element level, under the "Model" panel, the surface override should also be off for the element.

Hope that helps.

Re: Two color profile?

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:41:20 GMT

Jonathan, It looks like you're using 17 and using the Wall Tool with this profile? Are you sure that you have the tool settings set to NOT over-ride any of the surfaces? If you are overriding, then it will not matter how the profile is set up.

Your Info box for the selected trim should look like the attached...

Re: Two color profile?

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:21:10 GMT

James and Karl,

Thanks for the help. When I have a chance I will explore your suggestions. I did a work around for now by just putting a thin slab of the correct color in the vent recess. Karl, I am using AC18 and I could not open your attached file. It looks like it got cropped or didn't attach correctly.