Frame Generator Materials / Appearance Question

[SteveFrey]

I recently went into the editor in the content center tab and right clicked and selected the Family Table on one of my custom shapes I use in the frame generator.  So now when I use this member in a model it appears in the default architectural bronze color where I want it to appear as satin brass.  I can select the appearance and change it to satin brass.  Is there a way for it to default to the architectural bronze material with the satin brass appearance? 

[cbenner]

Did you set this with Material, mapped to Project.Material?  If so, I wonder what would happen if you added a column for color, and mapped it to Member.Color?  I've not tried this yet, but I wonder if it would override the material color... short of actually modifying the material appearance in the appearance editor.

If I get time I'll try this this afternoon and report back.

EDIT:

This will in fact override the default color material in your family table, without changing it in the material style.  I tried it on a piece of angle set to High Strength Low Alloy steel, added a column for color mapped as described above, and just set it to red for testing.  Sure enough when I placed a piece of that angle it came in red, with the material iproperty stell set to HSLA steel.