best practices for color studies

[mpa-marc]

Does anyone have recommendations (best practice approach) on how to create color studies for a building's exterior? At a minimum we'd be wanting to show color palette options for exterior elevations, but we'd like to be able to also show the options in key 3D views. Can this be accomplished in revit? or should we just revert to an additional step such as photoshop?

We were hoping to be able to schedule the finishes, so we were noodling around with the paint tool, but this has it's limitations - we need to be apply multiple paint colors to a wall. We'd prefer not having the create stacked wall.

Now that I type this, I realize that I may be asking too much from revit...but thought I asked anyway.

[vitorbortoncello]

use design options:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-D48B1E7E-BC34-414E-85BD-790F199BB2C0

[ToanDN]

- create a new empty project

- transfer project standards > materials from your model to the project

- duplicate the empty project and edit the materials graphics and appearances of the copy

- you must have one empty project with the original materials (A), and copies of empty project (B, C, D) with the same materials names, but they have different colors/ textures per your different schemes 

- create views in your model with the original materials, save to project as images.  These are your Original color scheme (A)

- transfer project standards > materials from B to your model, save the same views to project as images.  These are color scheme (B).

- repeat for (C) and (D)

- transfer project standards > materials from A to your model to restore all original materials

[handjonathan]

Hi @mpa-marc 

Thanks a lot for posting your question to the forums!   Has the solution suggested by @vitorbortoncello @ToanDN helped with your issue?
 
We look forward to hearing back from you with more information so we can help you as a community!