From the course: Revit 2019: Custom Furniture Modeling

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Creating a custom material

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Creating a custom material

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- [Instructor] It's all fun and games when you're adding materials to a family, until that material is not in there. And you can either go ahead and just use all the materials that are showing up in your Material Library, or you can add to it, and that's what I'm going to do. So, I'm actually going to go up to Manage, and I'm going to go to the Materials Library, and you'll see all the materials that you have created so far. And I'm going to go down here to the bottom, I'm going to click on Create New Material. From here, I'm going to make sure that I name this properly, and in this case, it's going to be Burlap and I want it to be the color of green. I usually like to put the category first, then it's identifying characteristics afterwards. The other thing I want to make sure I do is, I want to go down here to the Class and I'm going to change it to Textile. So, something else to keep in mind, if you're pulling a material from one line somewhere and you're using the say very specific…

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