Preventing material inheritance on joined objects

[Dave Buckley]

Ok so i got no responses to my last post about haxagonal walls. I managed to do it using an inplace extrusion, and then assigned it to the walls category to make it behave like walls. However, i had to do it in 3 stages (different diameters)

 

Now i have a problem, i need to join two parts of the 'turret' in order to add windows and have them behave correctly.

 

problem is that when i do this, the two sections both take on the same material, and i need the materials separate.

 

any ideas

[kris McIsaac]

can you post some images?

 

Is it the in place extrusions that are joining? or the hex exterior walls?

 

can you not join them and cut the window into one object only then use a wall openiing to cut out the other or if it is the extrusion just use a void to cut the opening

[Dave Buckley]

Kris

 

thanks for the response, i managed to get around both issues in the end.

 

the hexagonal walls were the in place extrusion. i did what you just described and edited the extrusion and added voids where the openings were.

 

however, this stopped me placing windows as there were no walls (because of the voids to place th windows in)

 

i got around this by using curtain wall tools for my windows

 

i will post an link to the image in a sec