New wall type material not showing

[Dennis_Gavin]

I have had this problem for a while and am finally posting about it.

I open an existing wall type, make a copy, change the outer material

and change the name but the existing wall material remains. See attached

where the new material I selected is stone but siding still shows in the panel

as well as the wall when drawn.  What's up with that?  I have to spray the wall

for the change to occur.  Trying to not have to make a wall from scratch.

[rlackore]

I only experience this kind of problem with X8 files that I converted to X9. With these files, when I select a wall, make a copy, and start editing, the original selected wall remains illustrated in the preview box, regardless of what changes I make in the Wall Layers fields:

 

I don't have this problem when starting a brand new file in X9.

[Dennis_Gavin]

This was a new X9 file.

[ShaneK]

Did you use eyedropper to change wall covering? If so I think you have to change materials in wall dbx to get back to what you want in your copy wall  type.

[MPDesign]

What I have noticed is that the material default does not change. Has to be made default in new wall copy.

[Dennis_Gavin]

This is a wall from Chief's own wall types that I made a copy of and tried to change.

I only used the spray gun AFTER I made the wall and used it in the plan tp change it to what I wanted.

[ShaneK]

Make new wall with what you want without using eyedropper.

[Dennis_Gavin]

Michael - Oh, I see.  I would think though that changing it as part of one of the wall layers would change the material.

Personally I think this is a little bug. No biggie.

[Dennis_Gavin]

Something weird on my end......

[Ridge_Runner]

That eye dropper has gotten me in more trouble on walls. It totally screws up the changing of any walls later by just modifying the defaults for that wall type. I struggled with it for a long time in a template plan until I figured out how it worked (at least for my workflow). Change the wall material definition in the wall dialog box, not with the eyedropper. My 2 cents.

[ShaneK]

I just repaired project for a fellow Chief user and that eyedropper tool created a MESS. Agree 100% with above post

[javatom]

I do a lot of fixes to other users plans so I have a database of plans to draw from.  This is caused by using the eyedropper and spray tools to change the exterior wall material instead of using the wall type and definitions.  I'm not even sure why it is an allowed function when it causes so many problems.  Rule of thumb - if you use the material dropper on an exterior wall it becomes the only way to change it after that point.  The odd part is that the behavior is random.

[javatom]

Good suggestion.

[glennw]

8 hours ago, javatom said:

Rule of thumb - if you use the material dropper on an exterior wall it becomes the only way to change it after that point. 

 

I don't think this is correct.

You can always change the material back to Use Default and then you can change the material in the Wall Definition dbx if needed (or repaint it if you want).