topic Re: Material browser sorting upside down (Revit 2023) in Revit Architecture Forum

Material browser sorting upside down (Revit 2023)

pdent — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:08:30 GMT

After making a change to a door family (making its materials type properties), I returned to the project and tried to change those materials. At first the material browser showed no entries, so I clicked on the little funnel icon that normally allows you to select material classes. The materials popped up, but now they are sorting Z-A rather than A-Z. There is no option to change sort order that I can see. I know this is a minor issue but it's bugging me. Any ideas on how to set it back? Closing and reopening Revit did not change anything. TIA.

Re: Material browser sorting upside down (Revit 2023)

blank... — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:21:47 GMT

Click on "Name".

Re: Material browser sorting upside down (Revit 2023)

pdent — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:33:19 GMT

Thanks, but I have done that multiple times and it doesn't work. Or are you referring to something other than this?

Re: Material browser sorting upside down (Revit 2023)

blank... — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:30:08 GMT

@pdent wrote:
Thanks, but I have done that multiple times and it doesn't work. Or are you referring to something other than this?

Re: Material browser sorting upside down (Revit 2023)

pdent — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:33:07 GMT

Doh! Thanks.

Re: Material browser sorting upside down (Revit 2023)

blank... — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:40:54 GMT

The old Revit rule "the more important the button, the smaller it is". Or in this case, nonexistent 😁