Material in external Families

Material in external Families

FarhanUddinShaikh
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Material in external Families

FarhanUddinShaikh
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Hi every one, can any one elaborate about families which i have imported into my project actual its a generic family but it is not made in Revit , it is imported as shown in attachment/pics my question is first its not heavy to read consisting more vertex second material automatically included in it without any external support, how can material be added in Revit and family can be made according to this manner, (ps. I have also attach family)
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i don't think it is possible to change materials, origin of the file come from drawing and import to revit family. thanks





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on second thought you can change the colour/materials thru visibility graphics > imported categories. thanks

 

colour.JPGcolour1.JPG

colour2.JPG

 





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FarhanUddinShaikh
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Thankyou so much for your reply but my objective is not to change material my i am try to say that "how material alredy made in that kind of family?" can you please elaborate ? thanks once again

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FarhanUddinShaikh
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yes diffidently it can change the color 

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ennujozlagam
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yes. you can change materials. thanks

colour3.JPG





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FarhanUddinShaikh
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if material are not added by the source so how it comes in render please see attachment

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yes , same, when i apply that kind of material in my own faily like door and window so it was always ask me to add material folder reassign the material but in this car case there nothing gona hapen here 

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@FarhanUddinShaikh wrote

 

Thankyou so much for your reply but my objective is not to change material my i am try to say that "how material alredy made in that kind of family?" can you please elaborate ? thanks once again

 

Sorry I'm not sure it could be, it was modelled in another software/program (where the materials come from) and converted to drawing and import into Revit? But I tried cannot change materials only colors. Thanks





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