From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts.

Duplicating materials

Duplicating materials

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Duplicating materials

“

- [Instructor] Last week, we talked about applying materials to the surfaces, system families like walls, and we did that both in edit type and using the paint tool. This week I'd like to talk about applying materials to component families or loadable families, and I want to focus specifically on what occurs when you create a new material, and a gotcha that you can run into if you're not careful. So I've got a couple different component families here in this scene. I've got some doors and windows, I've got some furniture, and the basic behavior is the same as it was with system families. If I select the door, go to edit type, I should see some material parameters in here. Now, I've currently got gloss white paint applied to the frame material of this door. Let me kind of move this out of the way. So, you can see I've got one instance of it here, another one here, but notice the door panel itself is still using, like, a…

Contents