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While in the Material Editor, in addition to Duplicate it would be helpful to have another option; Duplicate Material AND Assets. Maybe an intermediate dialog appears to prompt (with check boxes) for which assets (Appearance, Physical, Thermal) to duplicate. Often, we duplicate a material and then have to immediately, manually, duplicate the appearance asset so the original material does not get messed up.
On duplicating, the default behavior should really be to duplicate everything (including all the assets).
An additional could be "duplicate with shared assets" (=the current behavior).
We accidentally link assets all the time (causing a lot of delays because people adjust one appearance asset, not realizing they're triggering a change in 5 other materials).
I am not sure I completely understand your question. Currently, when we duplicate a material that Appearance asset is not duplicated and when we change it (asset), it also changes the original material. My Duplicate Material/Asset request would ideally duplicate the material and the appearance asset (but perhaps not duplicate physical and thermal assets). Thus, when I say "duplicate" appearance asset, I mean an exact copy of all the settings. The name could just be changed the same way as when an asset is duplicated now, manually... however, making it match the material name might be better. Does that answer your question? Other here may have different ideas... I would like to hear them.
When you rightclick a material, you have a submenu for duplicating with two options:
Duplicate
Duplicate with shared assets
"Duplicate" will duplicate the material and duplicate all its assets. That way the user can make changes to the assets without ever having to worry they are affecting another material because the assets are linked.
"Duplicate with shared assets" will give you a popup dialog box that asks you what assets the new duplicated material should share with the original: appearance, physical, thermal.
I would also add a "duplicate material" at the bottom of the dialog with the same two options.
Currently Revit material browser does not automatically duplicate materials assets. For most Revit users this may result is a huge disappointment when they find out later that changing the new material assets have changed all other materials that share these assets. This new feature simply prompts the user when duplicating a material: Do you want to share or duplicate material assets (Yes/No)?
