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12. Enjoy the results. Place the family in a "test showroom" project ( big enclosed area with
good lighting etc) and see if you like it.
(click to enlarge)
If once rendered, you are not happy with the material selection, go back to the family and edit it there. If
however you have assigned meshes to the wrong layers whilst in Autocad, go back to your dwg file and alter it
there, then re-import the file into the family you have already created, deleting the previous imported dwg. That
way you will not need to re-assign materials.
Useful tip:
Setting up all the layers in AutoCAD, then assigning the materials within revit is a bit laborious. However, you
should only need to do this once. Next time you download a 3ds file, export it from 3D studio into AutoCAD as
before. This time, open up your existing dwg file (this will become a template file for you) where you have already
created all the layers and import the new object into it. "Save as" a new file, delete the old unwanted objects
then simply assign all the meshes to the already created layers as before. Similarly, once you have assigned your
layers to the meshes, open up your existing revit family, import your new dwg into it. "Save as" the file to a new
name, delete out the old imported dwg, then the new dwg's layers will already be assigned to materials. (another
template file for you.)
I hope this will be useful to you all, don't forget about all the other content which can be taken from other
software packages and converted through dwg or dxf. Good luck!
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