New wall material?

[ACADuser]

On the 1st floor I want to use "Dens-Glass" in place of Drywall for room schedule.

How do I add that to the plan or rename Green board so mu schedule display correctly?

 

Thanks

 

[TeaTime]

30 minutes ago, ACADuser said:

On the 1st floor I want to use "Dens-Glass" in place of Drywall for room schedule.

How do I add that to the plan or rename Green board so mu schedule display correctly?

 

The fastest way is not to swap Drywall, just redefine it.
Under 3D> Materials> Plan Materials, locate Drywall, Edit it and change it's name, color, Materials List properties if it needs to be calculated differently, etc.

 

Then all Drywall will be Dens-glass.

 

 

If you need to mix and match for Walls v Ceiling or different rooms, then you'd need to specifically redefine your wall layers.

[TeaTime]

Oh.

39 minutes ago, ACADuser said:

On the 1st floor...

if you need that level of specificity you'd need different wall types for Floor 1, swap their Drywall layer with a new Dens-Glass material.

[ACADuser]

Thanks for the info.

I need drywall on the other 2 floors so I will rename backer board, I think.

 

[TeaTime]

X14 introduced a cool way to copy materials using the Material Painter that might make quick work of this sort of thing in the future, too.

In a 3D view choose the Material Eyedropper and click on Drywall, and at the bottom there's a new "Copy Selected Material" option.

It'll open a Drywall_2 material, name it, edit it, etc., then hit OK, change the painting Scope to "Floor" and paint the Drywall.

[ACADuser]

That was the trick I was looking for. Thanks

I now have a new Dens-Glass material & made some new wall types.

 

AmberBock time here.