topic Re: Revit 2018 Update 1 'Visual Materials API' in Revit API Forum

Revit 2018 Update 1 'Visual Materials API'

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 02:40:52 GMT

Where is the API documentation for the API improvements made available in the Revit 2018 Update 1 release? Specifically I'm interested in the new 'Visual Materials API' and whether this functionality includes the ability to reload texture files (jpg's etc)?

Regards

Dan

Re: Revit 2018 Update 1 'Visual Materials API'

JimJia — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:11:29 GMT

Dear Dan Rumery, Please read this: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2017/04/whats-new-in-the-revit-2018-api.html

Re: Revit 2018 Update 1 'Visual Materials API'

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 22:23:25 GMT

Hi Jim

I can't see anything on that post about the Update 1 'Visual Materials API'. Only a note that the Asset* classes were moved to a different namespace... did I miss something?

Re: Revit 2018 Update 1 'Visual Materials API'

jeremytammik — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 10:25:48 GMT

Dear Dan,

An update 2018.1 to the Revit SDK was posted to the Revit Developer Centre:

http://www.autodesk.com/developrevit

It includes two new samples:

Appearance Asset Editing
Duplicate Graphics

The former will hopefully answer all your questions in full.

The latter was already discussed by The Building Coder:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2017/05/revit-2017-and-2018-sdk-samples.html#4.2

Best regards,

Jeremy

Re: Revit 2018 Update 1 'Visual Materials API'

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:20:17 GMT

Fantastic! Thanks Jeremy.

I'll download the updated SDK and study the new Asset Editing sample.

Re: Revit 2018 Update 1 'Visual Materials API'

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 07:53:50 GMT

Dear Dan,

Can you reload the texture files (jpg's etc) with the Visual Material API?

I can just reset the color of the asset.

Best Regards,

Walt Wang