Unable to override wall surfaces.

[Anonymous]

Hi

Can anyone tell me why i can't override wall surfaces on certain walls?
I have checked everywhere :S

[James B]

Under "Override Surfaces" there are 3 buttons next to each disabled Surface popup. Just press those buttons to select which Surface you wish you override - the popup then becomes active. Currently the Surfaces are coming from the Building Materials.

[Stress Co_]

I have a bunch of elements with surface overrides
that I want to display with their building material's surfaces.

I see how to change them in the 3D window
(using the Surface Painter's "Remove All Surface Overrides" pulldown),
but shouldn't I be able to revert to surfaces defined by
building material in the elements settings?
Manual sez so... but it's not working for me.

A "Revert to Building Material Surfaces" check box would be an intuitive
improvement to the element settings dialogue box.

[James B]

Stress wrote:
...but shouldn't I be able to revert to surfaces defined by
building material in the elements settings?
Manual sez so... but it's not working for me. ...

In the Model panel for every element, just click on/off the buttons to the left of the Surface popups. This will either override or revert back to Building Material Surface. This can also be done via the Info Box.

[Barry Kelly]

You can't turn off these override buttons?

Barry.

[Stress Co_]

James/Barry:
Right, I see now.
The buttons DO toggle the surfaces on/off.
I wasn't checking it in 3D... and erroneously expected
the name to change in the element's settings dialogue.

The dialogue box is correct. It's not the elements surface
material, it is it's OVERRIDE material.

[Anonymous]

hello,
does anybody know why am i not able to change the surface of the wall?
i want it to be a custom material and not the building material that is originally assigned to the wall. normally, i would go to settings for the selected type of element, and change it via "override surfaces" popup. but the popup is inactive, and i don't know how to activate it. when i click on it, nothing happens.

[Stress Co_]

Re-read Barry's post above.
(Click the box to the left of the "inactive popup").
Or... in 3D, use: Document> Creative Imaging> Surface Painter.

[Anonymous]

Hello! How did you solve this error? I receive the same error when I try to change the surfaces of the slabs.

[Barry Kelly]

One more time!.

Barry.