Can't render material to Sketchup imported object

[Anonymous]

Hi

I downloaded a model from 3d warehouse. In Sketchup, I exploded the object and put all the faces in different layers. When I exported the model to dwg, I chose export faces only. I used metric furniture template to create the  family. I deleted all original render materials from Sketchup and create new material (if I duplicate default material, once I change the new material, the default material change as well, is this a bug?) I also ticked use render appearance. 

Then I go to object styles - imported objects, I assigned new materials to all different layers of Imports in Families. However, it still appear as this grey shaded material. How can I fix it?? I watched this youtube - convert a Sketchup model to Revit, I followed it step by step, didn't work. Was this function no longer available in Revit 2015?????

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[ToanDN]

Can you upload the CAD drawing of the furniture?

[Anonymous]

There are not just one. I tried a few, it did't work. Those dwg files are originally sketcup models which I downloaded from 3D warehouse. Before I exported them as dwg, I exploded them into faces only.

[ToanDN]

Just upload one sample among the converted CAD drawings so I can reverse engineer it.

[Anonymous]

This is the model I download from 3D warehouse and converted to dwg.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

You need to select ALL elements in AutoCAD and change their Color to By Layer.

[Anonymous]

Thanks! Now the material change! 

But I still couldn't attach an image texture or bump image on it for the material. Once I attached an image, the colour went back to that default grey colour.

Is there anyway to fix it????

[ToanDN]

Make sure you have Revit Material Libraries installed.  Try edit some textured materials and see if the mapping images actually exist and show up correctly.  I had to manually reinstall all of them.

 

[Anonymous]

Do you mean I need to reinstall Revit Material Libraries in Revit and how?

[ToanDN]

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/...

[Anonymous]

How is this marked solved? He literally responded by saying it wasn't solved.