RAL colors?

[arqt49]

Most of the construction material colors in europe are RAL coded.
I can only find the pantone system in Revit, which I beleive is most suited for graphic design.
Is there a way of using RAL colors in Revit, as in Autocad?

[jwilhelm]

Pantone has an architectural color system you can download it from their web site
it loads into windows and is available in Revit

[arqt49]

You miss the point.
Construction materials I use come with colors referencing RAL.
That goes for tiles, paints, power coatings, etc, etc.
It does not make any sense using Pantone for me.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

A quick Google search resulted in numerous hits for fan files available from printing shops on line. Try this one for a start.
http://www.tradeprintsupplies.co.uk/shop/products_list.php?cat=15

I've found these really expensive in the past but if you need it, you need it. I don't think there is an auotmatic way but if you go to trouble once you can always save the colors to a template and done with it.

[arqt49]

Thank you Dimitri.
That was not the answer I wanted :(
My frustration is that you get the RAL palette in Autocad, as well as Pantone and DIC.
You can choose from the color book you want.
As simple as that.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

I'm not familiar with the RAL standard. Is it very common in the US, Europe, UK ?

[arqt49]

It's a common standard in Europe for paintings (as Pantone is for printing).
Of course the UK has it's own BS and in the US, I don't know.

Just for curiosity, you can check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAL_(color_space_system) (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAL_(color_space_system))

And the official site:
http://www.ral.de/en/ral_farben/home/index.php

[niki_funky]

You can check the revitfactory site. There you will find RAL color table for Revit.

best regards
niki

[H-Angus]

Most of the construction material colors in europe are RAL coded.
I can only find the pantone system in Revit, which I beleive is most suited for graphic design.
Is there a way of using RAL colors in Revit, as in Autocad?

Here's a link to the RAL colour table on Revit Factory. (http://revitfactory.com/products_detail.asp?id=3909&Prod=1&Search=Y&Keywords=&order=1&pagesize=10)

[arqt49]

Thank you.
I will download that.

[narlee]

If memory serves, I started a thread a while back discussing a problem with color fidelity visa-vi between 2D and 3D view in Revit. Just an FYI that even if you get really accurate colors for 2D (or 3D, I forget), it's not straight forward that you get them in 3D...