revit 2013

[coltondewitt]

hello, i am using revit 2013 student edition on my laptop and for some reason when i open the program it says "Rendering features are currenty disabled. You must install the Rednering library to use rendering features"

well i looked on google and i couldn't seem to find the library and i called customer support and they were absolutely no help at all. if anyone has had this problem or knows of a fix please do let me know. 

thanks much 

[ccollins]

Try this:

Start Button>Control Panel>Programs>Add/Remove/Repair--and select Repair.

It may ask you for a disk; since you do not have a disk, see if you can locate the installer file

called Revit.exe or perhaps with a .msi (installer file) extension, and double click it.

It seems like you did not install the Revit 2013 Materials Libraries when you first installed it.

( I would hope the student version does not somehow exclude rendering tools! )

good luck.

[coltondewitt]

i looked in my add or remove programs and there isn't even a material library like there is for revit 2012. all i have is revit 2013. is there any way i can just download it online? 

[ccollins]

In Programs, don't look for the Materials Library--the Repair needs to happen in the Revit program.

No--you cannot download the Materials separately--they are part of the installation of Revit--which apparently

did not happen when you first installed it.

You could also try Uninstall/Reinstall.

You should see all the Revit 2013 Materials Library components in Control Panel>Programs and Features (Win 7)

see attached.

[vector2]

Just use the 2012 materials, they are the same.

[coltondewitt]

i saw the attached and im missing all the circled programs. i suppose i will uninstall and re install the program. i have no idea what happened 😕 

thanks much for your time 

[ccollins]

The way I understand it, Revit 2013 Materials are NOT the same as 2012.

They have new features such as "assets" and Thermal Properties which did not exist in 2012.

To be safe, I would uninstall and reinstall 2013, and make sure the 2013 Materials Libraries appear in the installed Programs list in Control Panel.

[vector2]

The materials UI has changed for 2013, but materials are

only jpeg and png images that you can get from anywhere.

[scott_d_davis]

the materials in 2012 ARE NOT THE SAME as the ones in 2013.  In appearance, yes, they are the same.  BUT the 2013 library has added Thermal properties to all OOTB materials.  It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you do not follow misleading information here and "just use the 2012 materials."

[vector2]

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@ccollins wrote:

The way I understand it, Revit 2013 Materials are NOT the same as 2012.

They have new features such as "assets" and Thermal Properties which did not exist in 2012.

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ccollins, the "new features" is the ability to add "assets" (Thermal Properties for one) 

to the "materials". You can add those assets to ANY render material. A render material

is an image, that's all it is. 

[scott_d_davis]

I am 100% certain that Cliff knows what the new features are of 2013 and how they work.

And to correct your statement, you don't add assets to a Render Material.  A render material IS an asset.  You add Assets to a Named Material.

Assets include:

Graphic Properties (how the object appears in a shaded or hidden line view)

Appearance Properties (How the object appears when Rendered)

Thermal Properties (Thermal resistance and Thermal mass for energy analysis)

Physical Properties (ie strength of steel)

And yes, you *could* add a Thermal property asset to every material in the 2012 library, to make them like the 2013 library, but we have already done that for you.  And they are all based upon accepted standards.

[vector2]

I believe the term "Asset" refers to the different property sets that

accompany a material image. And you can add or subtract Assets

using the "Asset Editor". 

Relying on OOTB default property sets is useful for the Revit 

student, but not so useful for real projects.

[scott_d_davis]

"Asset" refers to different property sets that accompany a NAME, not an image.  You define a material in Revit first by giving it a name (or by duplicating one of the OOTB materials, and then give it a name)  A named material can have no assets, and therefore no rendering material, no thermal properties, no graphics properties, and no physical properties.

The NAME can be anything you want.  You can make a material named "concrete", give it a render appearance of wood, a graphic appearace of aluminum, thermal properties of Air, and physical properties of steel.  Probably best to start with the ones that are OOTB, that are defined using a set of accepted standards,  You can then change the Appearance Properties to a different render material if you don't like the way it looks in renderings OOTB.

But you are correct here:  use the Asset Editor to add/remove assets.

[vector2]

Thanks for your input davissc, we are all learning.

[parveen.revit]

As Scot has mentioned, Revit 2012 and 2013 materials are different and it's always recommended to not to use older version materials.

To answer your original question, you need to make sure your machine has some basic hardware requirement (such as a graphic card) for renderings and you might require to re-install revit.