This tutorial will show you how you can use part painter combined with textures to transform the part on the left in to a more presentable part as shown below.

Solid Edge version used in this example: V20
Environment: Part
Prerequistes: Solid Edge Design-and-Draft / Foundation / Classic

How to do this:

1. The part and images used can be downloaded by right-clicking on this link and selecting the "Save Target As..." option. Save the .zip file in a proper location and extract the files using WinZip or another program. If you have Solid Edge V20 or later you can directly open the part file, otherwise you can import the .x_t parasolid file into a part.

2. After opening the part, we want to set the view configuration up to display textures. We can also choose a background for the part. From the menubar select Format > View.. to open the "Format View" dialogue box. On the "Rendering" tab make sure "textures" is selected. Use the "Background" tab and set the type to image, and select the background.jpg file as the background. Press the ok button to close the dialogue. The image should now appear in the background.

3. We will now set up the different face styles we will need to render the object. Go to Format > Style. Select "Face Styles" select a face e.g. "Blue" and press the "New..." button.

4.On the New Face Style dialogue box enter a name for the new texture. We are setting a the wall textures, therefore we name the face style "01Walls".

5. On the Texture tab of the same dialogue, use the browse button and select the walls.jpg image. Make sure that the texture is opaque and scale the picture down to 0.7. Press ok to close the dialogue box.

6. On the Style dialogue select Blue face style and press the new button again to create another texture for the floor. Enter "02Floor" for the name of the style. Under the Texture tab select the floor.jpg image. Set the scales to 0.3 and press ok to close the window.

7. On the Style dialogue select Blue face style and press the new button again to create another texture for the doors. Enter "03Door" for the name of the style. Under the Texture tab select the door.bmp image. Set the rotation to 90 degrees. Choose the transparent option and use the select button. The door image will now appear in a new window - click on one of the black window panels to select that colour as the transparency colour. You may also want to preview the image use the cube option. Press ok to close the current dialogue box and press apply to close the Style dialogue box.

8. Use the part painter tool - select a colour and use face option to colour the sphere red, the cube green and the cone blue.

9. Use part painter and colour all the walls (inside, outside and top) with face style 01Walls. Similarly, pain the floor (top and bottom) with 02Floor.

10.We will now setup the doors. Use the sketch tool and draw the following profile one of the outside walls (using the coincidental plane option).

12. Use the tear-off sketch command  to duplicate the sketch to another outside wall.

13. Use the split face command to split the faces of the two outside walls on the sketches. After selecting the split face command button, select one face and press the green accept button to accept the selection. Select the three lines on the corresponding sketch and press the green accept button again. Press the finish button. Repeat the steps for the second face and sketch. If you look carefully, you would note that the pattern in the door way doesn't match up with that of the wall.

14. Use part painter to pain the new door way faces with face style 03Door as shown below. You may need to colour the surrounding walls again with the 01Wall style.

15. The last is to make the inside walls behind the doorways transparent by using part painter and the style "White (clear)" so that the inside walls become see-through. We have hidden the sketches and planes to tidy up the image. Use "File > Save As Image" to save the current view as picture.