Transfer project standards on the file menu will import settings and
materials from one file to another.
However for the brick column you don't need to do anything more than make a
new material called Masonry-Brick just like it is called in your project.
You don't have to assign fill pattern, or any other properties. Just give it
the right name.
When the column is imported into the project it will automatically pick up
the settings from the project definition of Masonry-Brick.
If you then use that same column in another project where Masonry-Brick has
a slightly different definition the column will again pick up these new
project settings. So you're just making it too tough. Revit will do most of
the work for you. Just set up the project correctly.
If you would like to make the column even smarter. Select the object(s) and
assign a "Material" parameter to the column. Then even while in the project
you will be able to change the material will it is in the project and make
new types. So you could have the same column with Brick A, Brick B and CMU.
You should also look at assigning categories to your objects for even more
control.
wrote in message news:4990964@discussion.autodesk.com...
I must be missing something because I think this should be easy and I'm not
finding it so...
Out of the box, I have all of these materials, colors and fills to choose
from. For example, I can assign brick to the face of a wall. Great.
Now here's the rub. I went to create a new structural column and used the
template provided. Alas, there was no brick material to assign to the face!
To my utter disappointment, there was also no easily perceptible way to
import or load the materials from one drawing to the next. As far as I can
tell, the Settings for both drawings point to all the same file locations,
so I just can't figure out why things are available in one drawing and not
in another.
In the end, I created an element that had brick on it and cut/paste the
object into the template for the new column. That brought the material with
it and I was able to delete the "vehicle" object after assigning the brick
to my new column. There must be a better way. Please tell me what it is.
