Wall texture - show on outside only

[KeesW]

Here's a small issue. I've drawn timber walls, centred on gridlines. The outside are vertical boards, the inside is whitewash. I've selected these finishes in the wall toolbox model box. Because the walls are drawn with the control line in the centre Archicad can't tell which is outside and which is inside and vertical boarding shows correctly on some, but not other, outside walls. It appears to depend on whether the wall is drawn from left to right, or from right to left. This is hard to check when the plans are already done!

Do I have to redo all my outside walls, using an offset rather than a centred control line? Or is there another way?

Another thing about texures and fills. One often wants the fill to appear on the outside and vertical faces of walls, but seldom in the horizontal cut face, or on the top. E.g. brickwork coursing looks silly in plan! I use a patch or thin skin to cover the offending portion but is there an easier way?

[__archiben]

KeesW wrote:
Do I have to redo all my outside walls, using an offset rather than a centred control line? Or is there another way?

it depends on the direction the walls were drawn . . . but the good news is that you don't have to re-do them. use the 'modify wall' commands in the edit menu to switch, flip and generally mess around with wall direction and reference line issues . . . ('invert direction')

Another thing about texures and fills. One often wants the fill to appear on the outside and vertical faces of walls, but seldom in the horizontal cut face, or on the top.

the cut face of a window? or the top 'edges' of the wall? you can change both: the later from the wall setting itself and window/door cut horizontal faces can be controlled in the window/door 'model' pane . . .

HTH
~/archiben

[KeesW]

Thanks for your reply. It is some time since I used the 'modify wall' tools and will do so again.

However, the wall face and edges iquestion s less straightforward. One can select two surfaces (inside and outside, or top and bottom), and one edge. However, not all edges or sections are the same. The end of a brick wall, for instance, is different from its top view and Archicad requires us to use work-arounds, such as thin slab fills, etc. That was what I was on about.