When you export a Revit 3D view to Navisworks, any color overrides applied to systems don't transfer into Navisworks. Adding color back is a pain in the **** and doesnt really work systems. It's more duct/pipe.
My question is that I heard from someone or read it somewhere, but don't recall from who or from where, that if you assigned a material to your system, and that material had a color assigned too it, the color would transfer into Navisworks. I have finally got around to trying this and I am not getting it to work.
Is this even possible? If so, how do you do it? Thanks.
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Hello BIM MAN,
We are also facing this problem for a long time and has worked out a work around. We have actually developed Appearance profiler in navisworks which work on a set of search items and this search items are actually developed from our BIM standards. we follow systems and service types to assign colour in profiler for MEP services and type name for other AEC elements. Hence, when we have to apply colour in navisworks, we just have to load appearance profiler and search sets in navisworks and apply it to file. it also maintains the consistency in colours as well.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
PK
Dear Jason,
We are able to get system colors to Navis with the attached process. The critical we found is to set the same color to system material shading and apperance as in the attached snaphots. Hope it helps.
Exporting Revit 3D views as a .dwf will retain their displayed color when the .dwf is opened in Navisworks. There are differences to the element properties as compared to a .nwc export but the colors do carry over.
I guess the best Alternative solution as mentioned on the previous replies is changing only the graphics tab (Shading Color) of the material to the color you want to show and then you could duplicate this material for other system (cold and hot) and exported to Naviswork.
Once you are on Navis work you need to go to Viewpoint Tab and change the Render style to shaded to be able to see the color that you applied.
Also DWF is not a bad Idea.
I have tried changing the color of just the shading. While the duct was colored in the view, when I exported to NWC, the color was gone. My render style is already set to shaded as well.
Here is a video I made, Please verify it incase you missed a step
https://screencast.autodesk.com/main/details/2ebc16a6-633d-4c00-bc17-a8c863ce7965
was the video helpful or you still having the issue
I didnt see the video but just watched it and it works great. I wonder if I was having an issue with this because I was trying to do it in Revit 2013. Tried in Revt 2014 and works. Thanks.
DWF is a much a easier option with all the systems in a MEP model that would need sepatate materials, yes they could be added to your template. Only downside I have found is switchback doesnt work.