Schedule not reporting In-Place-Mass materials

[amplogho]

I am trying to schedule the material for an in-place-mass. The material scheduler is not reporting either the material the mass was created with nor a material it was painted with. I have tried painting the mass inside the in-place component editing area and outside but neither works.

[RDAOU]

@amplogho 

The parameter you are using must be a shared parameter. You will need to edit the in place mass, add a shared parameter for material, then associate it with the built in material parameter of the formed mass

[amplogho]

I didn't explain properly. I am trying to get Revit to schedule the material in terms of surface area. It isn't showing up in the material schedule despite other in-place elements reporting area and volume in the schedule. This works to report the material itself but I need it to report surface area. I am trying to use paint because not all of the surfaces need to show as the same material.

[RDAOU]

@amplogho 

K now its clearer. Unfortunately with the mass category it is not possible to extract surface are values of painted material without something like dynamo. but there could be an alternative to work around that..its worth a try:

• Convert the Mass Family  to Generic family By exporting as SAT and reimporting the SAT into an in-place Generic model
• Add the necessary Material Shared parameters (one per surface or one for all depending how you wish to paint the surfaces)
• Apply the shared parameter paint to surfaces 
• Finish the in-place 
• Use Material Takeoff Schedule (this might work to extract paintable area)

[amplogho]

What sort of parameter would I use to extract the surface area of painted surfaces? I exported and imported the model to the generic in place family, and that is working to extract the material the model is created with, but it still won't report painted surfaces. I did not add any parameters, Revit began reporting the model material as soon as it was a generic in place family.

Just to test, I tried painting a surface in one of my other in-place generic families and it did work to report the painted surface so I am not sure what is different about my slide that it won't do it.

[RDAOU]

I think you do not need any parameters even. Once it generic and paint is applied to a surface, you can do a material take off schedule and add the field Material: Name & Material: Area…don’t have access to Revit atm but maybe you can try it out.

I think you can even prepaint it when it is a mass before export … SAT format should export material to with it … will check when I’m home