Chief Architect Help Database - Article Number: 916
Message: You are attempting to change a material on a pony wall using the Material Painter
The information in this article applies to:- Home Designer Pro
- Home Designer Architectural
- Chief Architect X5
- Chief Architect X4
- Chief Architect X3
- Chief Architect X2
When I try to use the Material Painter to change the material on a pony wall, the following message appears:
What does this Question dialog mean?
When you click on a pony wall using the Material Painter tool, the selected material is applied to the entire wall and not the upper or lower part of the wall you clicked on.
The only way to assign materials to the upper and lower parts of a pony wall is to specify the desired materials in the wall types' definitions.
If you have already used the Material Painter on a pony wall, you must first restore the default materials.
To reset an exterior pony wall to its default materials
- Open the plan in which you would like to restore the default materials for a pony wall.
- Click the Select Objects
tool, then click on the pony wall to select it.
- Click the Open Object
edit button, and on the Materials tab of the Pony Wall Specification dialog:
- Click to select Exterior Wall Surface from the list of components on the left side of the dialog, then click the Plan Materials button.
- Click to select Exterior Wall Surface from the list of components on the left side of the dialog, then click the Plan Materials button.
- In the Plan Materials dialog, select Use Default from the top of the list, then click OK.
- Click OK to close the Pony Wall Specification dialog.
To reset an interior pony wall to its default materials
If you used the Material Painter on an interior pony wall, you must restore the default wall material for the entire room rather than the individual wall. The process is similar to the one described above.
Select the room, click Open Object , and reset the default material on the Materials tab of the Room Specification dialog.
For detailed, step by step instructions, see article 586 in this database: I used the Material Painter to modify my walls, and now I can't undo the changes. What should I do?
To change the surface materials on a pony wall
To change the interior surface material or materials on a pony wall, you can simply specify one or more Wall Coverings for that wall.
If you need to change the exterior siding materials for a pony wall, it is best to specify different wall types for the upper and/or lower pony walls. You could also use Wall Coverings for this purpose, but this approach may result in incorrect wall thicknesses. For example, if a pony wall currently has Siding-6 above Brick-6, and you would like stucco on the upper only wall, replace the Siding-6 wall type with Stucco-6.
If you want to use a siding material that is not associated with any of your wall types, make a new, custom wall type. To learn how, see article 716 in this database: How to create a new wall type.
Last updated on: Feb 08, 2013
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