topic Family Colorless in Revit Architecture Forum

Family Colorless

emersongonzalez1999 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:37:46 GMT

I download a family from Revit City it was a Truck Trailer its Colorful but when I load it to Revit is grayed out colorless. How can I make the truck appear as shown in Revit City?

Re: Family Colorless

ToanDN — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:11:33 GMT

Manage > Object Styles > Imported Objects > Expand Imports in Family > Assign materials to the truck's layers

Re: Family Colorless

syman2000 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:23:30 GMT

Is the material show up in realistic or shaded? If it is shaded, then they haven't add material to it. If it shows up in realistic, then they haven't make the graphic match the material. So anything you download from Revitcity require you to clean up before you can use it. Not everything shown in screenshot will appear when loaded into your project.

Re: Family Colorless

emersongonzalez1999 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:51:24 GMT

I don't see anything related to the truck

Re: Family Colorless

ToanDN — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:50:36 GMT

Just share the family here.

Re: Family Colorless

emersongonzalez1999 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:55:09 GMT

Here is the files

Re: Family Colorless

barthbradley — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:02:15 GMT

View Phase Filter set to "Show Complete"?

Re: Family Colorless

emersongonzalez1999 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:04:53 GMT

Re: Family Colorless

barthbradley — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:09:33 GMT

It's a Revit Specialty Equipment Family. It is colorless. Paint it.

Re: Family Colorless

emersongonzalez1999 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:06:14 GMT

Re: Family Colorless

emersongonzalez1999 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:07:55 GMT

So I have to do manually ? like edit materials ?

Re: Family Colorless

ToanDN — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:12:29 GMT

It is an actual Revit model, I am impressed. You need to assign materials / paint surfaces 3d elements in the family.

Re: Family Colorless

barthbradley — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:16:49 GMT

@emersongonzalez1999 wrote:
So I have to do manually ? like edit materials ?

Just open the Family, create some colorful Materials, and then paint the Truck with those Materials using the Paint Tool.

Re: Family Colorless

syman2000 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:19:36 GMT

You are better off with this family instead

https://www.revitcity.com/downloads.php?action=view&object_id=7696

Re: Family Colorless

barthbradley — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:20:58 GMT

If you want to make a job of it, you could Paint with Instance-Type Material PARAMETERS.

See this link to learn more:

BIM Chapters: Revit Materials; Painting a Material Parameter