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[Jack Carson]

I am drawing a commercial building and I have a problem that I don't remember running into before.  The roof is flat (1/12) covered with TPO which is white.  I also have two small porches that have shingles.  When I add the shingles the flat room now has shingles.  So I color the roof white and the shingles on the porches turn white.  Any ideas?  I need to keep the roof white and the shingles colored.

 

Jack

[David Zawadzki]

You need to change the material on one of your roofs to something other than what you have on the other roof.

 

 I hope that makes sense.

[Jack Carson]

David, I figured out what I was doing wrong. I created a flat roof that was white to represent TPO, and then two porch roofs.  It's a two-story building so the roofs were not connected. I created the first porch roof with blue standing seam roofing.  No problem.  I decided to just copy the first porch roof to the location of #2.  Everything copied except the blue standing seam room.  So I just surface copied it and that's when the TPO turned into a blue roof.  I turned the TPO white and the second porch changed to white.  Number one wasn't affected.  So I decided to delete the #2 roof, which I had copied and started new.  That solved the problem.  I hope this makes sense.

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[Mark Petri]

Jack, you can also select the roofing material in the roof edit menu, so you don't have to redraw the whole thing (for future reference).

[Jack Carson]

Thanks Mark!