Family Colorless

[emersongonzalez1999]

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?

[ToanDN]

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

[syman2000]

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.

[emersongonzalez1999]

I don't see anything related to the truck

[ToanDN]

Just share the family here.

[emersongonzalez1999]

Here is the files 

[barthbradley]

View Phase Filter set to "Show Complete"?

[emersongonzalez1999]

[barthbradley]

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

[emersongonzalez1999]

[emersongonzalez1999]

So I have to do manually ? like edit materials ?

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

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@emersongonzalez1999 wrote:

So I have to do manually ? like edit materials ?

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

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

You are better off with this family instead

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

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

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