Christina_Girerd Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 I want to change all the window and door components in this room to another color. I tried to save time by using the spray paint tool with "Room" application selected, but I keep getting this "unable to determine room..." dialog. The alternative it offers me is to change the whole object, but that doesn't work for me as I want the interior white, but need to keep the exterior brown. I tried clicking on the main part of the door, the door frame, the window frame - they all gave me this dialog. So I'm having to manually spray paint each component so I only get the interior colors changed. At first I spray painted the entire floor to change the color, but just like the "spray paint object" mode, it also changed the exterior window and door color which I did not want. So I thought I could at least spray by room, and then it would just get the items within the interior of the room, but apparently not. These are standard Chief doors and window. I checked this out in a brand new plan and had the same problem. Am I missing something? Or is the program not able to distinguish which part of a window or door is in the room and which is "outside" so it gets confused? But when I spray in component mode, it knows the difference. This has also got me thinking that maybe we need one more variation of the spray paint modes - between room mode and floor mode - an all interiors mode. Hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 44 minutes ago, Christina_Girerd said: So I'm having to manually spray paint each component so I only get the interior colors changed. Group select the windows, then group select the materials to be changed. Faster. Also, in plan view...faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Also faster...hold "ctrl" while painting multiple objects to delay the change until you let go of "ctrl" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina_Girerd Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 Good suggestion - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMc Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Christina_Girerd said: I want to change all the window and door components in this room to another color. Change one window to what you want, create a style palette from it. When creating (or in library) open the settings for the style palette and just select those things you want-interior materials etc. You can apply that by room and it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina_Girerd Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 More good suggestions - thank you. I've got a big deadline tomorrow, so I didn't have extra time to investigate on my own. I use both those methods for other things, hadn't thought to apply it here, but they'd work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNestor Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Style Pallets work well - not sure it’s always the way to go. I made this video on SP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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