Transfering materials along with textures to another computer.

[Anonymous]

I have all of my textures saved in a local folder on my computer. I also created a material library out of the materials with textures created by me. How can I make it possible for a person I send the project / material library to to be able to use all the materials along with textures so that in Material Browser there is no error The texture cannot be found? Does Revit "remember" relative or absolute path to texture files?

[RDAOU]

@Anonymous

You give that person your user library file and the folder you placed the textures in. The path should be saved in the library so if he dumps the textures somewhere else he will get the error you mentioned. Relative or not, I would assume Revit cannot identify a nonexistent folder/path. It needs a path it can find or which can be replicated by user so that Revit recognizes it. I place mine always under %AppData% in a folder named Textures...we never had issues passing mat lib and textures along with a detached model 

[Anonymous]

@RDAOU

But is there a way or a plugin to sort of pick the textures used in material library and archive / zip (like the way 3dsmax does?) so that the material library could be distributed with anyone - over whom we don't have control (where they would like to store or not store and add the texture url in revit? etc)

[cbcarch]

Take a look here:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/EN...