Pantone Colors in RAC 2009

[Mike_Maloney]

Not sure if this goes here or in Rendering Section, but here goes.........Is there a way to use other Color Charts in RAC other than the Panetone.i.e., like from Sherwin Williams, etc?

Mike

[hand471037]

Not directly, but what we used to do at a place that did a lot of multifamily housing, and thus used the SW paint for everything, is use the RGB values to define the colors in Revit.

You can look up a SW color number and get an RGB value for it. I think you can do this off their website, but we had one of those handheld color checkers and used that instead. So you'd hold it against the paint chip, it would tell you the RGB values, and then you'd plug that into Revit and get colors that were pretty close. They aren't cheap but they are really useful, I need to buy one someday...

So then we'd just make a bunch of Revit Materials named things like "Paint - SW - (color number) - (color name)" using the proper RGB value & render material and then paint-bucket them onto the walls.

[vennix]

Hello there,

Look here for a digital colour picker called pixeur to get your readings from a computer screen.
http://www.veign.com/application.php?appid=107
I use it to get rgb values from a series of matching colours determined in illustrators colour guide. Revits taste in colour schemes is just horrible.http://forums.augi.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geert

[aaronrumple]

We use SW RGB colors right from Sherwin-Williams web site (in Max/Vray rendering). With a linear workflow using a gamma of 2.2, the colors work out pretty well. Some are more difficult to adjust as the RGB value just doesn't match up perfectly with the real color. Sometime we have to do two renderings - one for the limited gamut of the screen and another for more accurate printing.

Alternate wen sites such as http://www.easyrgb.com/ may have slightly different values that work out better. So I tend to check them both and see what matches our equipment better.