Revealing Painted Surfaces

When you are working in your model and you suspect that a surface might be painted, apart from doing some detective work in the Type properties and determining if this wall is showing correctly. An easy way to see if a wall is painted is to use the Paint tool!!!

If you select the Paint tool in the modify ribbon (or keyboard shortcut ‘PT’) and hover over the suspect object face, the pop-up info box will tell you if the face has been painted…..

It will read at the end of the info, ‘Face:Painted with……

Now you know the face is painted and if you want to remove the painted surface you can use the Remove Paint Tool, this is located under the Paint button, select the down arrow next to the paint tool and you will see Remove Paint’.