Learn how to modify materials in a model, such as a roof screen, using software tools like the edit type and duplicate functions. This discussion covers the process of changing material types, creating custom surface patterns, and assigning new materials for accurate model representation.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to select and change the material of a roof screen in a software model, which begins by using the 'edit type' and 'duplicate' functions to create a new material type.
- Creation of a custom surface pattern, like an eight-inch horizontal pattern, is discussed, which includes duplicating an existing pattern and modifying the line spacing value.
- The final step involves correctly assigning the newly created material to the roof screen in the model, ensuring an accurate representation of the actual material.
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Our next material that we're going to mess with here is going to be our roof screen. And we just use that generic eight-inch. And so I'm going to go ahead and select this chain of walls here, all four of them.
And then I'll do edit type, duplicate, and I'm just going to call this one roof screen. And then I'm going to change this material here to a new type. And so this is a metal panel type.
And let's see what we have available, just that aluminum panel, which is fine as a start. So I'll go ahead and duplicate that. And I'll just change this to a metal panel because this would be like corrugated metal of some sort such as galvanized metal.
And then we'll change our surface pattern to like an eight-inch horizontal. And we can look and see if we have one in the model patterns already. And we have this eight-inch or the six-inch parallel, which is going to be pretty similar.
We can duplicate that and change it from six to eight here. And then I can change this line spacing value for what we're going for, which is eight inches. And then I'll just hit OK until we're out of that dialog box.
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And now we've got the right material assigned to our roof screen.
