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Anonymous
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How can l create a single wall with different colors and textures. For example a wall of 3 meters having one color from zero to 1 meter and then another color from 1 to 3 meters.
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Barry Kelly
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I would use a complex profile wall.
You can even add modifiers to make the different materials stretchy.
In fact in this image everything with a blue line is stretchy - wall heights and width, even the footing heights and widths.

Then it is just one wall and you will have no issues when you need to add doors and windows.
i.e. no need to cut extra holes in the extra walls.


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Lots of ways to do that. It depends on what you need to do with the model. One way is to leave the siding off of your Composite and model the parts of the siding you want to be different as separate walls. Then apply a different texture to those walls. If you are using a Complex Profile, you can make the complex profile useing different fill pattern/building material for each segment you want to show up with a different color. You could also use a texture/image and adjust it to fit your wall. Personally, I prefer to model the cladding/siding separately for something like that for the sake of useful interactive schedules. If it's just a graphic representation you want, use graphics solutions.

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Anonymous
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Thank you very much I will try this your method. I'm really grateful
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
I would use a complex profile wall.
You can even add modifiers to make the different materials stretchy.
In fact in this image everything with a blue line is stretchy - wall heights and width, even the footing heights and widths.

Then it is just one wall and you will have no issues when you need to add doors and windows.
i.e. no need to cut extra holes in the extra walls.


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
Anonymous
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Barry wrote:
I would use a complex profile wall.
You can even add modifiers to make the different materials stretchy.
In fact in this image everything with a blue line is stretchy - wall heights and width, even the footing heights and widths.

Then it is just one wall and you will have no issues when you need to add doors and windows.
i.e. no need to cut extra holes in the extra walls.


Barry.
Thank you Barry l appreciate
Anonymous
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Barry wrote:
I would use a complex profile wall.
You can even add modifiers to make the different materials stretchy.
In fact in this image everything with a blue line is stretchy - wall heights and width, even the footing heights and widths.

Then it is just one wall and you will have no issues when you need to add doors and windows.
i.e. no need to cut extra holes in the extra walls.


Barry.
I just tried it now and it worked, thanks l really appreciate
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Francis wrote:
I just tried it now and it worked, thanks l really appreciate

You are welcome.
I am pleased to have helped.

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