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there seems no way to give these guys a material except by category, and while you're at it please get rid of the old way of going all the way to object styles to change it, that's way too tedious.
I'll suggest a hopefully simple solution to this. Currently a file with 3 materials imports as "Material 1" "Material 2" and "Material 3". The workflow would then be to assign an appearance to each of these or other properties for, e.g., keynoting or tagging. Importing the 3dm again erases this data and so the workflow is broken.
If imported materials could seek-and-use existing materials, then a robust workflow would be established. A Layer "BrickRed_VA" from a 3dm should automatically use "BrickRed_VA" from the material library, otherwise a new material "BrickRed_VA" would be created. Ideally this would not use the layer name but rather the material assigned to the layer or object.
Adding on what adkaplan mentioned, the fact that we can't change the material that Revit assigned when it was imported is very limiting. Even if it's not possible for Revit to apply a material from the layer's name (which I don't see that hard), just giving us the ability to change the material would be one step in the right direction. Like adkaplan said, if I import 10 different elements, I will have 10 different materials which might in truth be the same one but in my material browser I have them duplicated since I can't change them all to the same one.
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