Wall color in 3d

[beginnergrasshopper]

This may sound trivial to some but I am a 12th grader learning so please bear with me.

I have a project that I need to create a room and color the walls. In 2d, I can apply a color scheme but when I view in 3d, it does not show the colors. Can anyone help me. We are using 2009 revit arch. (I don't think its 2010).

Thank you very much.

[cbaze]

Hit F1

Type in materials

[need4mospd]

You'll want to look at the Paint tool. In 2009 it looks like a paint bucket.

[eric.piotrowicz]

Also make sure your 3D view is in "Shading" or "Shading with Edges" mode. If it is set to "Hidden Line" then materials and paints will not be displayed.

[beginnergrasshopper]

Thank you! I think I'm understanding it slightly better. I see why I was having problems. I was trying to click the image surface area, not the walls edge. Clicking the edge seemed to change things.

[beginnergrasshopper]

Ok,

now I'm confused again. This should be so simple so i'm not sure why I'm having these issues.

So when I' click the paint bucket now, I can see the bucket when I'm moving my mouse around. Though when I click on a line, or surface now, nothing happens. I do have shading with edges turned on. Any idea?

I'm sure this is so trivial once again...I appretiate your patients and assistance. I wish my other group members knew what the heck is going on as well.

[beginnergrasshopper]

I think I just answered my own question. I needed to add a material to the paint first. I see now that if I go under settings/materials and choose say default wall to being red, when I select that material and use the paint option, anything I click will turn to that default color.

Lets say I choose the default color of "paint" under materials to blue. I want three walls to be blue using the paint option, then I want the other wall to be green. Do I have to go into the materials editor and change the material "paint" to green then? Is there any faster way to point and click to change these colors?

For s simplistic example, if I use a photo program I can click a paint palete, then click the object to paint...then click the palete for another color and when I click in another area of the object, it will paint another color.

[twiceroadsfool]

If you change "paint" to a different color, everything you painted "paint" is going to change too. You need to make different "paint colors" to use with the paint bucket.

Go to settings > materials, and make all the colors you need. Then go back to 3D, and click the paint bucket. The drop down at the top left has a list of materials, all your "colors" will be there.

You cant "eye dropper" colors from a palette, because Revit is based on a database of objects and materials. "Color" is just an ancillary field of information from the materials...

[beginnergrasshopper]

Thank you all for your explainations. I'm starting to get this now (I think:-)). Its funny, the other guys think "I'm" the expert now and ask me questions. I'm far from it though. It a learning process. I just have to keep practicing and playing with it.

Are there any other tips that would be benificial for me to learn. The teacher is apparantly learning this as we are. Its an elective class, civil/arch. engineering is something that interests me and I want to pursue it in college.

Once again, thank you all for your patients and understanding. I know sometimes message boards can be brutal when someone asks others a "simple" question.