topic Re: Painting walls in Modeling

Painting walls

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 06:55:16 GMT

Hi there,

One newbie question.

What is the best way to paint walls ( meaning only in one room from only one side, but all 4 walls of zone )

Now I am tryin to crate new layer front of wall with "curtain wall tool". Am I doing right or is there more simple way?

I attached screenshot with curtain wall. How can I remove that space between arrows? I tried all adjustments but it wont dissapear

Re: Painting walls

David Maudlin — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:09:38 GMT

Tom86:

I would just Split the Wall(s) where the paint color changes, and change the Surface assignment for those wall(s).

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Re: Painting walls

alemanda — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:24:03 GMT

I would use a morph (just a plane) and I would put it a "finishing" layer ...

Re: Painting walls

Barry Kelly — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:29:25 GMT

I would split the walls and change the surface material as David mentioned.

Adding extra elements like curtain walls, morphs or even another thin wall is all well and good but it just gives you another element to alter if your room changes shape/size.
Also you have to set the surface material for those elements any way so you may as well just do that in the original wall in the first place.

Another option is the 'wall accessory' if you have installed the accessories add-on (Help menu > Archicad downloads).
It is an extra element to add but it will attach to the wall and will automatically change/move as you adjust them.
You still need to split the walls where the surface changes so you will still be making extra work for yourself.

Just split the walls and change the surface material.

Barry.

Re: Painting walls

alemanda — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:28:03 GMT

Depending on the final purpose and/or the complexity of the paint you want achieve you can go with a simpler solution (split the wall) or a more complicated solution (morph, thin wall, etc).
There are several methods.

Re: Painting walls

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:16:03 GMT

Thank you guys for the answers.

Splitting is easier no doubt about it but I have a problem with splitting of external wall. No problem with transverse wall but I am doing exactly that same with externals and it won't split. What am I doing wrong? Or it can't be splitted?

David, sorry for my signature. Fixed.

Re: Painting walls

David Maudlin — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:34:52 GMT

Tom86 wrote:
Splitting is easier no doubt about it but I have a problem with splitting of external wall. No problem with transverse wall but I am doing exactly that same with externals and it won't split. What am I doing wrong? Or it can't be splitted?

One possibility is that the Walls are Grouped. If they are Grouped, then enable Suspend Groups before the Split command. If that does not work, try posting a screen shot (plan view) and perhaps someone will see the problem, there is no reason an external wall could not be Split.

Thanks for adding the signature.

David

Re: Painting walls

Link — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:55:55 GMT

You could use a solid element operation and have the wall inherit the properties of the operator. About any operation will do but maybe intersect would work best.

Cheers,
Link.