The paint tool could paint all the walls, ceilings, floors in a room without using the the split face tool.
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The paint tool could paint all the walls, ceilings, floors in a room without using the the split face tool.
Last edited by Steve_Stafford; 2005-03-27 at 09:01 PM. Reason: Splitting into separate wishes
It can...can you explain how it doesn't work for you?
I didnt know I could do that. How??
If I want a special finish for the floor in one specific room and I use the paint tool on the floor, the entire floor on that level changes finish.
Apparently this is possible in Revit. I'm waiting for someone to explain how?
When I read your post originally I took it to mean that you wanted to apply a material to the whole surface and that you thought you HAD to split a surface to do it.
Now that I think I better understand what you asking for, that is, to paint a material on just a portion of the whole of a surface without having to split the surface and you are correct, you can't.
I'm not sure how you'd tell Revit which portion to paint without doing something? The split face tool is that "how"...it let's you apply materials without modeling the true conditions.
For floors, many of us actually prefer another approach. That is to model only the "structural slab" (for example wood structure and sheathing or concrete slab) of the overall floor system. Then place a "finish only" floor (tile, carpet, wood, VCT) in the rooms that get different materials. For rooms that have a perimeter boundary of one material and a body of another just do the same thing within the room itself by cutting a "hole" (sketching a second boundary shape) in the larger floor area and placing the other floor material inside the hole in a second step.
These finish only floors must have their bottom offset parameter increased to match their thickness so they sit on top of the structural slab floor. When/if you cut a section through this later at a larger detail scale you get the actual condition you expect at a pretty small cost (effort).
If you set up "structure only" and "finish only" floors in your project template, you are ready to go on the next project.
Last edited by Steve_Stafford; 2005-03-29 at 08:50 AM.