I have been given a file consisting of about a city block worth of condos. I am given the task of changing the color of the exterior only. That being said, it would be a huge undertaking/time suck to go piece by piece. I am familiar with components and it looks like they were used in creating the fi…

It would be useful to examine the model to fully understand what you are encountering. From what you say, I suspect it is too large to upload directly here (limit 3MB) but perhaps you could share it via the 3D Warehouse and provide the link here (unless, of course, it is proprietary or confidential…

Here’s when I first click: [image]

And when I click again: [image]

I’m not sure if I can share the whole file but here is a screen shot of the file to give you an idea of how bulky it is. I have hidden a number of the building because my computer is so slow. [image]

The first image looks like a typical Component/Group opened for editing (which is what double-click should do). What did you click on (or double-click on) to get to the second image? Also, did you check whether your active style has the selection color set to yellow? A different approach occurred…

[image] slbaumgartner: A different approach occurred to me: are the relevant outside surfaces painted with a common material (or set of materials) not used by other entities in the model? If so, you could edit the material to give it a different color and that would affect all the painted quant…

I don’t know how to choose/view the selection color? I just repeated what I did and actually when I first click it turns yellow and double click shows the component/group. Editing the material would be a good approach too! I’ll try that.

[image] Adubs: I don’t know how to choose/view the selection color? You can use the eye dropper tool found in the materials tab to select the color then you can go into the edit window and adjust the RGB values and saturation, hue and contrast values.

[image] Adubs: I don’t know how to choose/view the selection color? On a Mac, open WIndow->Styles. In the styles window, click on the little house icon to make sure you are looking at styles “In Model”. Then select a style by clicking on it, click the tab that says “Edit”, and in the edito…

Oops, sorry about the wrong info.

Need to edit materials of existing condo complex file

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Need to edit materials of existing condo complex file

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