Smart Paint
Overview
Section titled “Overview”The Smart Paint tool completely overhauls Revit’s native painting workflow. Instead of orbiting around your model to painstakingly click individual wall faces, this tool allows you to paint the interior boundaries of an entire room with a single click. Paints can be applied in 2D views also, which is not possible in Revit, natively. It is designed to work in perfect tandem with the Smart Slice tool for complex, multi-material wall finishes. It is smart enough to detect only the exposed parts of the room that need to be painted. For edge cases combine this tool with Smart Slice tool for accurate application of paints.
It features a live quantity dashboard that tracks exactly how much of each material has been applied.
Interface Breakdown
Section titled “Interface Breakdown”1. Material Selection
Section titled “1. Material Selection”- Search / Select Material: A fully searchable dropdown populated with every material loaded into your Revit project.
2. Paint Modes
Section titled “2. Paint Modes”Choose how you want to apply your selected material:
- Room Mode (All Boundaries): The fastest way to paint. Simply click a Revit Room, and the tool will automatically find and paint every bounding wall face inside that space.
- Include Ceiling: Check this to simultaneously paint the ceiling boundary while painting the walls.
- Ceiling Only: Paints only the ceiling surface above the room, ignoring the walls (perfect for Reflected Ceiling Plans).
- Face Mode (Individual): Functions similarly to Revit’s native paint tool but with improved selection filters, allowing you to easily target specific walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, or structural columns without the cursor blocking you.
3. Live Paint Quantities
Section titled “3. Live Paint Quantities”As you paint (or remove paint from) your model, this dashboard dynamically updates to show you a real-time breakdown of all painted surfaces in your project.
- Material / Area / %: Displays the material name, the formatted total area (e.g., $m^2$), and the percentage breakdown of the total painted surfaces in your model. This is excellent for quick material take-offs and cost estimates.
4. Action Bar & Smart Slice Integration
Section titled “4. Action Bar & Smart Slice Integration”- Paint / Remove: Toggles the active mode of the tool. You can just as easily use “Room Mode” to remove paint from an entire room with one click!
- Slice (Switch to Smart Slice): A dedicated quick-switch button. If you need to paint a wainscot, tile dado, or split-finish wall, click this button to instantly close Smart Paint and open Smart Slice to cut the wall face. Once sliced, you can seamlessly jump back to paint the separated sections.
💡 Tips
Section titled “💡 Tips”- The Slice & Paint Workflow: The ultimate interior design workflow. Use Smart Slice to draw a horizontal line across your walls at 1200mm, then instantly switch to Smart Paint (Face Mode) to apply a tile material to just the bottom half of the wall.
- Safe Removal: The Remove tool is highly precise. If you use it in Room Mode, it will only strip paint from the faces bounding that specific room, leaving the rest of your model completely untouched.
- Unpaintable Elements: If a specific element in your model refuses to accept paint, it may be because its native Revit Category or Family type does not support face-painting. The tool will safely ignore these elements rather than crashing.