Multi-Textured Walls

[Anonymous]

Possibly a very simple question - how can one easily model a wall that has stucco for it's bottom portion and wood siding for it's top portion? As I am still in the design stage, I'd rather not use a complex profile. Or is it not as easy as I think and need to purchase an add-on such as Archiwall. Thanks for the thoughts and ideas.

[Barry Kelly]

Complex profiles are your best bet.
They will behave just like a standard wall once you have created them.

Otherwise you could stack two walls on top of each other.
But this creates problems with doors and windows.
You will have to place the door/window in one of the wall and an empty opening in the other wall if the frame pasees acrros both walls.

Or you could just add fills to your elevations to represent the stucco but again you will have to cut around door/window frames.

Archiwall may help but it is an add-on you will need to purchase (I don't know anything about how it works).

Barry.

[JaredBanks]

complex profile is the answer.

"As I am still in the design stage, I'd rather not use a complex profile."

You've got that reversed. Because you're still in the design stage, you WANT to use a complex profile. It'll make trying different options so much easier.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the ideas. How would you propose I handle the height issue of the complex wall? It seems to me that changes to the height of the wall or height of the stucco will require a change in the complex profile - slightly cumbersome?

[JaredBanks]

There's a vertical stretch you can turn on in the complex profile. This works for a lot, but not all situations. The wall can only get taller, not shorter. Depending on where you set the stretch you can keep one material constant or have them both scale.

It might also mean you have 2 or 3 complex profiles to handle all the conditions. But I think this will still be easier to manage than stacked walls, 2D work arounds, etc.

[Anonymous]

Again, thanks for the help. As usual, talk forum delivers!!