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When i select a wall to change the material on that one wall, a couple other wall changes and not the one i selected. ive tried duplicating the wall and everything. its proply something real easy, please help.
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Are you making the changes by editing the 'Structure' of the Wall Type? Try duplicating, renaming, and editing the Type parameters of the Wall Structure/Assembly.
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yeah, im duplicating, renaming, and editing the structure. but somehow their still connected
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It sounds like you need to understand materials. If you change the material settings - all elements that use that material will change. Materials can be assigned to any element.
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WWHub, Didn't the OP say that the one he selected WASN'T chsnging?Also, could you give me your definition of an element please? Cheers Dave F.
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By element, I mean anything that has 3D properties other than a line. Each extrusion inside a family is an element that can be assigned a material. These are assigned in the family initially but can be over-ridden in the project. Everything that is assigned a material definition will show the same characteristics (cut/surface/render) unless over-ridden in the view. The poster was complaining that changing one wall changed them all. This is what I was addressing. As far as why this one wall would not change, I would look at over-rides in the view.
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can you change one wall without all the others changing?
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Select the wall, go to properties, "Duplicate" and give another name to that wall, now you can change the materials ONLY in that wall.
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If you're altering the materials themselves (as opposed to swtiching which material is in the wall) it will affect all walls with that material even if its not the same wall type. As for why its not changing in the original, it could be a graphic override issue, or it could be that at one point you painted that wall with a different material. The "painted" layer will remain even if you change the materials of the wall (and honestly I don't know how to change it back other than paint it the new material)
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"(and honestly I don't know how to change it back other than paint it the new material)" - in "Paint" select "By category"
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To put / reface an element with it's original defined material after it has been painted, just paint with "default". Default is the assigned material.
Edited on: Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:10:20 PM
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Not only wall shall be duplicated, Material must be duplicated too.
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