Wrong colours shown in visual styles.

[MariusGan]

I've used too much of my time today trying to figure this out and my patience is running out. The colours on the families in my project shows completely wrong. The first picture shows the correct colours and how it should be when i place them in an new project without a template.

The second picture shows how it appears in my project. How is this happening? Why is the equipment in red shown as yellow and the blue one is shown as grey?

Both visual styles is set to shaded.

 

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, thanks. 

 

 

[ouaheb_mustapha]

Hi marius ,

Can you share with the revit family?

[MariusGan]

Yes, I'll attach it.

[ouaheb_mustapha]

Regrettably, I possess the Revit 2023 version, But try to experiment with the material properties of the family

[barthbradley]

Looks like the View's Phase Filter needs to be set to "Show Complete".  

[barthbradley]

Are you talking about the material shading color? 

[ToanDN]

Check the material properties in the project.

[vitorbortoncello]

It's a Phase Filter

[handjonathan]

Hi @MariusGan 

Thanks a lot for posting your question to the forums!   Has the solution suggesteds by @ToanDN @vitorbortoncello @barthbradley helped with your issue?
 
We look forward to hearing back from you with more information so we can help you as a community! 

[MariusGan]

It's weird, because when i directly edit the family, the material "Steel, Paint finish, Red," is red, as it should be. 

But when I place it in the project, it's yellow. And when I double click it to edit the family after I've placed it, and then check the material, the material "Steel, Paint finish, Red," is yellow apparently??

[YorickSOHO · Accepted solution]

Materials can exist in several documents (project and family), have the same name but different settings.
Check the material which is in your project file or files. The family will take the material loaded in the project file.
If you open your project, and modify the family from the project (no family file should be opened) feels like it'll appear yellow (shaded mode)

[MariusGan]

Tanks, this was the solution!

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

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@MariusGan wrote:

It's weird, because when i directly edit the family, the material "Steel, Paint finish, Red," is red, as it should be. 

But when I place it in the project, it's yellow. And when I double click it to edit the family after I've placed it, and then check the material, the material "Steel, Paint finish, Red," is yellow apparently??

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Write this down: PROJECT MATERIALS RULE

If a Family has and uses a Material named "Red" which is red colored and the Project has a Material named "Red" which is blue colored, then the Family will be blue colored in the Project.  

Now, if the Project did not have a "Red" Material, the Family's "Red" Material would carry over to the Project's Materials Library without changing.