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pmaly

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Hey Gang,

I've created a series of perforation (voids) on a new surface. These perforations (5x5) are in a nested family, that I arrayed a few times.

I need to do this in 3 new families, so in the end, my project slows down.

So I was wondering, is this the best way to do this?

Heres a screenshot...

Thanks for the help!

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Phet

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WWHub

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Sorry but you used a bad process.  You model will be overloaded if there is very much of this.  Fortunately, Revit has a simple material assignment for just such a thing.  Look in your standard material library under metal and you will find an example.  Then look back here and do a search for other posts here because this has been covered before.  I don't remember the key words so look.

Here is the post: http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=20249

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coreed

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I agree with WWHub. I would use a material assignment.

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pmaly

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Can a material be assigned to only a section of an extrusion?

If you look closely in my screenshot, the lightgrey part is an extrusion, where I'ved applied a material to it. But the darkgray extrusion, it is not the hole extrusion that is perforated. There's only 3 rows of perforation. And to complicate things, it's inset in the extrusion. It doesn't start at the edges.

Any other technics?

Thanks guys!

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WWHub

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I would just make that part a seperate extrusion nested in a hole in the other extrusion.

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pmaly

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There's an echo in this tread...

Thanks WWHub, I'll try that out!

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