Why Archicad dont implement a feature to paint the walls like the Sketchup or Revit?

[Yago Castro]

Recently i haved to work with an interior project that has a wall with a polygnal paint, and i have to create a curtain wall to do that. Its works but give me a lot of headache, so i think, why not simple copy fuction of others softwares that really work for it. I choose the Archicad as my primary software BIM because thats was proposed, and big part of time, that really is, to be a simple software, but when a have to paint a wall just to the ceilling level(especially when the ceilling has unevenness), man, i feel that i need to migrate all the project to Revit just to do this.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Try using Complex Profile Walls instead of CW. You will be able to define multiple skins with different colors.

If you need a poligonal inset in a wall then you can use the opening tool to draw the polygon.

 

[Laszlo Nagy]

That is a pretty good tip Eduardo to use Openings for this purpose. If the Opening is placed as a Wall Niche and its depth is set to a very small value (like 0.2-0.3 millimeters), it gives the desired results and it is almost as if the Wall surface was painted to a different color.

[JaredBanks]

A zero thickness opening would become a paint tool! Of course openings can be a trainwreck with floor plan display.

Another solution would be a thin complex profile beam made with a slightly stronger BMat than the outside face of the wall. Not as easy to manipulate as the opening, but the surface would be flush.

[David Gulbrandsen]

It´s also possible to open a section/interior elevation showing the wall, use fills with different colours to "paint it", and then copy/paste these fills into a comlex profile wall - and then use this profile to make a visual representation of the colours. I have made a quick example, this wall is of course far to "thick" (note the reference line) - but you adjust that to be 1mm or whatever thickness you want.

It is a hazzle to keep updated if you have doors and windows you need to move around, so you might need to adjust the profile to match this from time to time.