Material of Family that comes from a Nasted family

[Anonymous]

Hii  Hello!!! 

I made a column that is made with stone blocks that came from a nested family, but when I load the family in the main project the blocks stay gray in the realistic view ! Looks like it does not loaded the image texture mapping and not even the consistent colour !

I am trying to edit in the project without success, and also tried to make it a parametric material in family in the both "type" and "instance" and also the same in the Nested family of the block, but not sure if did all the possibilyties!

Any ideas to help ? Thank you very much !!!  

[Alfredo_Medina]

Usually, materials are not assigned in the family. Just the material parameter is necessary. Then you carry (associate) that parameter from one family into another equivalent parameter in the next family, until the parameter is available for the user in the project, where the user assigns a a value to the parameter.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Alfredo!

So when I create the Material parameter I put Default Material ? And Type or Instance? 

[Alfredo_Medina]

In the nested family, the parameter should be by instance.

In the host family, your choice.