Diagonal Door Paint

[goulnazarianh]

Hello Everyone

Do you have any idea / tricks on how to paint a Revit door family diagonally so that we end up with 2 different materials? such as this picture down below.Half White / Half Yellow.

[L.Maas]

I do not see an easy solution. In sections for example you could use a region. But it would not be visible in a 3D view

If you would need it in 3D, depending on the accuracy you could model a family and just place it in the model

You might need multiple of these lements to cover an area depending on the elvation differences.

This can aslo be done in combination with the paint tool (e.g for walls) where you can split the face and then paint that area.

Other solution would be to modify/create door models where the shape is built in so you can just use different materials.

But depending on how many areas you have to do and on what level, it will be quite labour intensive.

So also consider not modeling it and use detail drawings to show design intent. Alternative way might be creating renders and then use photoshop (or similar) to colour the areas.

[martijn_pater · Accepted solution]

If you change the door category to generic model ie. you can use/create parts on it, but probably better to model it in the family. For the walls you can use split face.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/EN...

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Easy, split face in the door family and paint with a material parameter. Load in project and change the material. Split face the wall to align with the door paint and paint them.

[goulnazarianh]

I didn't know that we can split inside of a family it really worked.
Thank you!I think it will do the work.

[goulnazarianh]

I think you solution is better by dividing into parts because I noticed that it's changing the color from the sides as well not just the surface. Thank you!

[martijn_pater]

@goulnazarianh I think it depends on what you want to do with it. Not sure how changing category/using parts might effect scheduling later on for instance and you'll need to control view settings for parts. Was thinking it might give you a whole new set of problems... So I would probably model it in the family...

If you have several different painted doors ie, you could parametrize the split face adding instance parameters to the sketch. It's a little more work in the family itself to start with, but probaby worth it later on...

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/continuous-material/m-p/9602795#M288157

[goulnazarianh]

Did you use the same methods as it's mentioned above or this is a new way? cause it's looking Great!

[barthbradley]

I used the methods described in the Links that I posted on the other thread. Check 'em out. The link I posted above directs you to the thread and the Links.