topic Re: Composite wall materials not working right. in Modeling

Composite wall materials not working right.

Arcadia — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:48:24 GMT

For some reason my composite profile walls are taking on the properties of the side material. In other words the left and right materials are being overridden by the side material. I want to have a white finish on the inside and brick on the outside. I don't recall ever having this problem before and can't figure out why it would be the case. Any idea's? What am I doing wrong?

Re: Composite wall materials not working right.

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:26:35 GMT

Are you using a composite fill or a complex profile? I'm not sure from your description.

A wall with a composite fill should behave as normal - all the materials are controlled in the walls settings dialog box.

The face materials for a complex profile wall are controlled entirely in the complex profile manager by selecting each face and assigning a material. Only the side material is set in the wall settings.

Post a screen shot of the wall settings, and what it looks like in 3d if you are still having problems.

Re: Composite wall materials not working right.

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:43:54 GMT

Coud you have you structure display wrong?

Re: Composite wall materials not working right.

Arcadia — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:57:22 GMT

No as my post says it is composite walls (and in fact non-composite regular fill walls).

I changed the partial structure display option to entire structure display and this fixed the problem. I was using without finishes option as my complex walls have linings that I only show in section views. However this is puzzling as all the layers in the composite walls are set as core only and there are no finishes layers so why doesn't it show correctly in core only display? I am only changing the color of the face not turning off or on a lining.