What's the best way to apply revit materials to DWG import in Revit family? See attached.
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What's the best way to apply revit materials to DWG import in Revit family? See attached.
Object styles/imported objects.
If your dwg imports have multiple layers, you will be able to assign a material to each layer.
I have a collection of kitchen cabinets downloaded from a major manufacturer that are all dwg, yet I have been able to assign materials and render them effectively in Revit.
You mentioned "Object styles/imported objects"...
That's the setting you can modify in Revit or in AutoCAD?
In Revit.......
click on MANAGE
then OBJECT STYLES
then IMPORTED OBJECTS
Of course, you have to have previously imported some dwg files. The example I mentioned was kitchen cabinets, but many manufacturers that haven't caught up to offering rfa files DO have dwg files available. Plumbing fixtures are another example.
Cool. I will give it a try. Thanks.
Here's an example. The stove and the cabinets were downloaded from their manufacturers in dwg format. The cabinets are paint finish, the stove stainless.
Is that a straight Revit rendering? It's nice.
Yes -- view/render/best quality.
Warning: You sound like you're trying rendering for the first time. Renderings like the one I posted perform trillions of calculations and therefore take a very, very long time to execute, depending on the complexity. The rendering you see here took about 44 straight hours on a 64 bit machine in Revit 2011. Start out at low or draft quality to test what results you can expect. You will not be able to get results you see here every day of the week!
Correct me if I'm uninformed (I hate being wrong ) but this only applies to the rendered appearance of the material and materiality will only appear in rendered or 'realistic' views. Surface patterns and cut patterns cannot be applied to imported geometry.