Interior wall colors

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to figure out how to assign color to interior walls to individual rooms.  For instance, blue for a bedroom, beige for a bathroom, etc. that will show up in 3d views as well as elevations.  Any help is appreciated.  I am currently using Revit 2012 but will be using 2013 in a couple of months.  Thanks

[Anonymous]

Hi Mike, welcome to the forum.

The way I would paint those walls is to first go into the 

"Materials" dialog. Duplicate any of those items and give

it a new name, like "Kitchen wall paint". Then again for the

other rooms. You can choose a color either for just the

graphics appearance or also for the render appearance.

After you get all the room names set up and the colors

chosen for each, close out of that and go to the "Paint"

tool on the ribbon. With the Paint tool you will see a list

of all those items including your new wall paints. 

In a 3D view, (make sure you have shaded view selected),

paint the walls.

[Anonymous]

Tanks for the advice.? I will see if I can fumble through this as this might be a reach for my experience level.? I will never get better if I do not try though. Thank you again, Mike Ross

[loboarch]

Please note; if a wall in you model spans across multiple rooms there is an additional step which will be required.  You will need to split the face of the wall so the paint is applied ony to the room where you want it rather than the entire wall face.

Here is a link to an article aqnd video showing how split face is used before the paint tool to isilate the area that will be painted.

http://therevitkid.blogspot.com/2012/05/revit-tutorial-logo-painted-cmu-wall.html

[Anonymous]

And if you DO want "two-tone" walls, you will probably

want some kind of molding where the colors come 

together. But then I don't think you said anything

about two-tone walls. Good to know you can do that

though.

[loboarch]

I was talking about 1wall that spans across multiple rooms. If you paint the face without first splitting the face both rooms will get painted.

[Anonymous]

Okay I get it. Like of you have a living room that is open to the

dinning room but you want the two rooms to have different 

color walls. Then the two different color paints would butt up

against each other. And if no molding then a nice straight

edge for the two colors to come together. And that looks

really good sometimes too.

Edit:  "Split Face" tool.

[loboarch]

Your example is one possibile situation where splitting the wall need to happen first, but the rooms don't have to be open to one another.  I was talking about a more subtle situation where one wall spans across multiple rooms that may need to be a different color and there is an intersecting wall between the 2 rooms.  Each room has to have the split face tool used first to get the paint tool to work.

In this case it is not so obvious how this will work.  The paint tool does not detect the intersecting wall, so if either of these walls were painted without the split face tool being used first the paint will be applied to ALL rooms.

[Anonymous]

Great lesson on interior wall finishes.

Thanks lobo.

[jz4all]

Hi  Loboarch,

Here we can split the walls vertically and horizontally and then paint them. I would like to know , how to paint forms (for instance  circle, ellipse...etc) on the same wall?

thanks

Jaf

[carldupreez]

Hi, im not sure if this would be a solution to your problem, but try adding a workplane to the face of your wall and then add elements to that work plane, this way they will be editable (I believe) in multiple views and they will be snapped to the wall's plane. I use this to create 3D text, trimmings, etc. Regards from South Africa

[chrisplyler]

You can use the Modify > Geometry > Split Face tool to create circles, polygons, or whatever shapes you like.

[chrisplyler]

You might want to google search up some interior design forums.