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I would strongly recommend NOT turning off the By Material display of your Wall components. Prior to the introduction of Material Definitions (in 2004, if memory serves), to get each Wall component to display the way it "should" for the particular material that component represented in a specific Wall, each Wall Style had style-level overrides set. All well and fine, if you really like carefully recording the display settings for each type of wall component you use and then carefully applying those settings over and over again. Then the real fun starts, after you have a hundred or so Wall Styles set up, and someone comes along and says that the way your brick is shown does not meet the company standard and you have to go and edit every Wall Style that has a brick component and change the override settings for all of the Display Representations that need to be updated.
It is far easier to use Material Definitions, where you do still have to set up display overrides for each Material Definition, but once you get Brick right, you can simply pick it from a list to assign it to the brick components in your Wall Styles and can rest assured that all brick components will display the same way. And when the inevitable request to modify the display comes, you can edit one Material Definition and have those changes propogate to all Wall Styles.
In the posts above, you do not mention what issues you have with the out-of-the-box settings, and what end result you would prefer to have. While I would highly recommend making use of the out-of-the-box settings, even at the cost of changing your standard, if you absolutely must change the way various components display, if you use Material Definitions to control the display, after you edit them to bend the display of Walls to your will, you will be able to use any of the out-of-the-box Wall Styles and see them display "your" way, and may have a somewhat easier time migrating to future releases.
It is far easier to use Material Definitions, where you do still have to set up display overrides for each Material Definition, but once you get Brick right, you can simply pick it from a list to assign it to the brick components in your Wall Styles and can rest assured that all brick components will display the same way. And when the inevitable request to modify the display comes, you can edit one Material Definition and have those changes propogate to all Wall Styles.
In the posts above, you do not mention what issues you have with the out-of-the-box settings, and what end result you would prefer to have. While I would highly recommend making use of the out-of-the-box settings, even at the cost of changing your standard, if you absolutely must change the way various components display, if you use Material Definitions to control the display, after you edit them to bend the display of Walls to your will, you will be able to use any of the out-of-the-box Wall Styles and see them display "your" way, and may have a somewhat easier time migrating to future releases.
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