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?
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.
Chris Benner
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