What can I do if I want to add some finish material to a column or beam????
1. i tried with Paint comand but it doesn´t work.
2. For a beam its only work if I add a architectural column? and in case of beam what can I do?
3. I have to edit my family?
Thanks !!!!
You should be able to change the finish material by modifying the Material under Materials and Finishes in the Properties Palette.
Thanks for the answer
I did not explain myself
I want to have two differents materials in one column or beam: the material for the structure, example Concrete, and a finish material, like paint.
I need something like the material of the wall where you can add some layers to one wall.
Thank you for the update.
The only way we have found to do what you are trying to do, would be to add the layer manually in the family.
We understand that this may not be the preferred workflow, but we have not found a better way.
Revit has been around for more than a Decade now. Users across the world have been struggling with issues as simple as adding a finish material to a column or a Beam. That's so weird and insensitive on the part of the software developers. Ideally a software meant to facilitate architects should make their work easier rather than difficult. What baffles me is the fact that each element in Revit has its own pros and cons. Its like you need to master a family type to be able to work with it. Rather the workflow should be like any kind of element be it, the way of working should be same so that fusing elements, joining layers, etc. becomes simpler and smoother.
When are developers going to pay heed to these issues.
Hi, thanks for this explanation. It seems the most pertinent answer to the original question.
Sorry to be pain but could you possibly explain the process of adding "a Material parameter in the family and paint the surface of the member with it" for us Revit novices?
Also is there a reason why the columns and beams do not have this property as a default? It seems logical to me that everyone would want to construct their models to show their structure with the appropriate finish. Having to do this "work around" to the default families in order to achieve that seems illogical to me.
Thanks ToanDN,
Ill try this in the morning. One thing though, will this show as an assembly item with a thickness in plan/section or is it only a cosmetic solution and the beam/column will read as only RC?
Hi
You can add layers ( Finish ) in colour family.
( Architectural Column, or Structural Column family )
So that Structural Cross section remains intact, and finish layer is different.
give a custom material and edit it in the project.
I have attached two families for your reference.
Cheers!
Thanks for this Ganesh. I will give this a go and see how it joins with my floors.
You don't by any chance have a similar family for structural beams do you?
Hello,
I came to this thread for the same issue plus one: adding wall sweeps (skirting boards) to finished walls and columns. The tricky part of my issue is that the column is slightly thicker than the finished wall. So I've found an alternate workaround: creating a finish wall type that consists only of a structural element equivalent to the finishing elemnts of its neighboor walls (in this case, cement/sand screed). See the following images:
I haven't tried this for beams, though. It could work on the sides, but not on tops and bottoms... Ganesh's beam families should work better in this case.
Happy modeling!
The edit family and add finish parameter method works great for simple paint or texture finishes. I use a shared a parameter so i can schedule these.( I also create a parametric void around my columns to cut walls properly, great for glazing.)
Where it falls down is if you need to do something like a concrete off form pattern. For some strange reason, I can't get the patterns to align of beams and columns properly like you can on walls & floors. Beams left and right alignment is OK but not vertical, same with columns. It seems that its linked to the image assigned & I can only assume snapped to the sweep setout point (being centre of beam/col) If anyone has a workaround for this I'd love to hear about it!
cheers
Richard
It had an issue that columns lost cut pattern after joining geometry or in some cases it shows the cut pattern of painted material.
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