Adding Materials to Imported Mass

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to add materials to imported masses? I imported a .sat file from Rhino and wish to add a solid/opaque material texture to it. As of now it shows only translucent blue. I've added a material parameter in "Edit Family" and assigned a material but nothing changed. Simply trying to do it for rendering. Thanks!

[L.Maas]

Depends a little bit how the model is made. But in general it should be possible to assign an object style material to the right layer

[Anonymous]

The imported model was made using Rhino and Grasshopper. It was a solid
surface in rhino. I created a new family and imported the CAD file into the
family. In Hidden Line view the object is solid but any others its
translucent blue. How do you assign object styles? I made a material
parameter and added one but it didnt help. I thought about making it all a
"roof" with roof-by-face but its a gridshell roof structure and it has
hundreds of faces, individually turning them all into roofs and changing
the material just seems impractical. Whats a sure-fire easy way to do it?

[L.Maas]

You can reach the object styles inside the family editor by going to "View", "Visibility/Graphics" At the bottom of the window that opens you will see a button with "Object Styles". In the new window that opens you will have to go to the tab "Imported Categories" (because the sat file is an imp[orted file).

See also the screenshot of my previous post.

If you would need more assisitance it woul be advised to post your sat file so we can have a look