Hi,
We'd like to show clients multiple paint scheme options for a project; we show them one view (elevation or perspective) and with a scheme of colors for trim, siding, roofing, window colors, etc., and then duplicate the view to show another set of colors. Right now this is achieved by printing the view to PDF, changing material properties, and then making another PDF. That's a tedious procress and it seems like it would be better to have feature in the view template that overrides a specific material in that view only. So for example, we might have a material called "Clapboard" that is blue with a horizontal line pattern over it in one view, and then be red with the same line pattern in the next view.
Is this a feature that REVIT has that I've missed? If not is that something that can be added?
Thanks. Andy Hinterman
have you tried using design options with visibility graphics overrides to achieve this?
Dzan Ta, AEE, ASM, ACI.
Win 11 Pro/DELL XPS 15 9510/i9 3.2GHz/32GB RAM/Nvidia RTX 3050Ti/1TB PCIe SSD/4K 15.4" Non-Touch Display
Thank you for your post. In this case you create design options for these alternate views and representations of the model. Once you have created these design options (two links below), you can then adjust the visibility graphics of each to represent the view as desired. Once you have selected the view from project browser, click edit, next to visibility graphics. From this dialog box you can then click design options tab. Choose what option you would like to show in the view. This can then be repeated for all views or options. I hope this helps.
Design Options Best Practice Overview: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU...
Creating and setting Design Options: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU...

I have considered design options, but in this case it would require putting all of the exterior walls, roofs, trim, exterior elements like patios or raised wood decks into the design options. Given that we often are doing this with a very well-detailed model that includes a lot of interior trim (most of our work is high-end residential with a lot of detail) the exterior walls end up hosting wall sweeps or models in place to represent baseboards, crown and wainscotting. Putting the exterior walls into a design options then requires that we include the sweeps and other interior walls that also host those trim pieces. This cascades throught the model and we end up having to include more of the model in the option. This not only becomes a big management problem, but also places nearly all of the building into the design options. If we're doing 3-5 exterior schemes then the model file size will become large and also difficult to manage.
That's why I was hoping for some kind of view override that would allow us to change the materials without having to use design options. What would be best is if I could override not just the material pattern, but also it's background color, so that I could for example make a blue clapboard, a red clapboard and a green clapboard without having to change wall type properties between views.
Does that make sense? Thanks. Andy
What may help is if you have Autodesk Showcase. You can export your Revit model directly to showcase. Within Showcase, you can create design alternatives that showcase any material for any object you want....in essence, a storyboard of design options.
Dzan Ta, AEE, ASM, ACI.
Win 11 Pro/DELL XPS 15 9510/i9 3.2GHz/32GB RAM/Nvidia RTX 3050Ti/1TB PCIe SSD/4K 15.4" Non-Touch Display
Autodesk Showcase? I'm afraid that's new to me, is it included in the building design suite?
yes
Dzan Ta, AEE, ASM, ACI.
Win 11 Pro/DELL XPS 15 9510/i9 3.2GHz/32GB RAM/Nvidia RTX 3050Ti/1TB PCIe SSD/4K 15.4" Non-Touch Display
Definitely need to implement the material override in the view template. I have no understanding why these basic concepts are still not possible in Revit. Please work on these and many others, it is quite frustrating to see so many basic things are still not in place. We all love Revit, but I personally believe that the software is really lacking basic flexibility.
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