Revit Textures Handling Feature Request

[skyeg321]

I have struggled with materials in Revit for a long time. It seems it would be simple enough for Revit to store custom textures within the project itself. Not as a link that is so easily broken in networked environments. As I'm sure file size is an issue, can't there just be a texture file size limit? Even low resolution textures are better then nothing. I'm tired of opening grey Revit projects!

[RDAOU]

@skyeg321 

The file locations, places and Render Appearance are meant to be for such purposes.  You need to talk to the one managing the network servers, network paths are not supposed to be easily broken!!!

Well..unless is it everyone does whatever everyone wants policy

[syman2000]

One way to overcome this would be to add texture to a specific folder in your local drive. I know it won't work for all scenario, but it is better than remap the texture. I agree Revit should embed texture into the file itself much like how Sketchup does for their texture.

[skyeg321]

Yes this is what we are doing right now but its hard to get everyone to update their computers

[syman2000]

Also I've use one drive and create a folder for the texture. Afterward I use shared functionality and send it to your colleague. From their end, they would accept that invitation and have direct access to the folder you shared. Once you update the texture, it will sync to your colleague folder. All the colleague need to do from their end is to map Revit path to that specific folder. If you give them access to write to that folder, they can also add texture and it will sync back to your folder.

[Lance.Coffey]

The following article has information on this topic: Sharing material appearances with other Revit users

Some important points from the article:

• If you are working in Revit 2020 or 2021, make sure Revit is updated, to avoid this issue (where additional render appearance paths don’t work).

• If you would like to see material textures embedded in the Revit project file (in future versions), please vote up this idea: Embed Material Textures