'Parts' don't keep materials when you copy and paste

[emmanuelbee]

I've have modified my wall assembly into ' parts' and have assigned diffrent materials within the parts, my problem is when i copy and paste that wall, it maintain the pasrts within the wall but sometimes the materials that i have assigned to the individual parts don't copy with it. it resets the parts to the original material, any solutions?

[barthbradley]

I'm betting it has to do with Phase settings of Materials.  That's where I'd start looking.  The reason I'm going there is because when you copy/paste, you are creating an new instance with a Phase Created being that of the Phase you are pasting in to.  

Using Phasing? 

[emmanuelbee]

I'm not using phasing and everything is being done in 'new construction' and im not even using copy and paste, I just using the normal revit 'copy' to tool

[barthbradley]

Interesting. I don't remember this ever happening to me. What Revit Version are you using? 

[emmanuelbee]

I'm using revit 2019, I think it might have something to do with the wall that I'm trying to join it to, maybe depending on the way that it joins the wall it resets the properties of the parts, Im not sure. its strange because of some of the parts do keep the materials and some don't, they just reset back to the original material

[nmarcelis]

Is it possible to share a small sample of the project, by coping the specific walls / parts into an empty project for debug purposes and share this on the forum?

Im curious about this problem you're having.

[emmanuelbee]

See attached.. the wall that has been set to parts, try pasting that wall to level two and see what happens

[Sahay_R]

@emmanuelbee  - Please set Parts Visibility in the view to Show Both. As you can see, I have the wall+parts copied up to Level 6....

[emmanuelbee]

I'm not talking about not being able to see the parts, I'm talking about the materials that i set for the parts on the ground floor, when you copy and paste that wall to the level above it loses the materials and resets it to the original material

[barthbradley]

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@emmanuelbee wrote:

I'm not talking about not being able to see the parts, I'm talking about the materials that i set for the parts on the ground floor, when you copy and paste that wall to the level above it loses the materials and resets it to the original material

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I thought you weren't copying and pasting?  Anyways, you do a lot of Warnings and issues that are probably contributing to the problem. I too get consistent results (and numerous errors) when using copy and clipboard copy/pasting.  And, yes, some of Part Divided Surfaces revert back to original.  I would suggest a little different approach in this case, not because you are copying Parts, because you are copying DIVIDED Parts.   I would Group the Walls and place additional instances of the Group.   

[emmanuelbee]

Yes actually i am copying pasting to other floorS, I don't why i said i wasn't before  I've already trying grouping and pasting the groups thinking that would work but actually it didn't, i think the problem is the joint between the parts and other normal walls, i deleted all the other normal walls and just pasted the parts to the other levels one on top of the other and they actually kept the materials so i think it has to do with interaction with other walls.