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Applying materials per face of a wall

kency
Enthusiast

Is it possible to apply materials per edge of a wall. I could see an option to apply materials / textures to each side and all 4 edges of a wall. Also is it possible to add custom images as materials / textures?

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

No, all 4 edges (top, bottom and ends) are considered as one surface.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
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Kamelite
Advocate

But yes, you can apply custom images as textures:

 

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find the Surfaces-button, and open the dialog-box. The easiest way to do this is to make a copy of an existing material, and just change the texture. This can be a stock-image from Archicads library, there are far more textures than actual surfaces in Archicad. Or something from the web or whatever.

 

The attached image shows an example, I found these two images on the internet, and applied them as textures:

Kamelite_2-1699347118488.png

Isola Tyvek and Hunton is two types of windbreakers that are available where I live. I made this particular piece as a visual explanation some time ago.

 

.Kamelite

Windows 10, Archicad 27

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

No, all 4 edges (top, bottom and ends) are considered as one surface.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
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Kamelite
Advocate

But yes, you can apply custom images as textures:

 

Kamelite_1-1699346844348.png

find the Surfaces-button, and open the dialog-box. The easiest way to do this is to make a copy of an existing material, and just change the texture. This can be a stock-image from Archicads library, there are far more textures than actual surfaces in Archicad. Or something from the web or whatever.

 

The attached image shows an example, I found these two images on the internet, and applied them as textures:

Kamelite_2-1699347118488.png

Isola Tyvek and Hunton is two types of windbreakers that are available where I live. I made this particular piece as a visual explanation some time ago.

 

.Kamelite

Windows 10, Archicad 27

I don't think this is quite what kency was asking.

I have embedded their image to the original post.

 

They were asking about individual top, bottom and end surfaces.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

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As far as my english goes, that was a part of the question?

 

.Kamelite

 

Windows 10, Archicad 27

I do apologise.

I should read the whole message and not skim so quickly.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11