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I begin with REVIT 2009 today and i open a old project made in RAC 2008, when i render, all the materials in my scene appears a kind of "Gray", i go to "Settings-Materials" and all off my materials created by 2008 are there but in "BUMP Material" don't show the JPG of my material, it's just like don't exist, only when i browse and choose the material in the BUMP folder "He" can render correctly. Question: Do i must assign the materials (one by one) again in Revit 2009? or there is a simple way to do this, "Push" all old materials in the project open with 2009?
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Not 100% sure, but I believe it is the unfortunate, one by one option... at least they managed to keep how the materials look in elevation and cut views!
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WHAT???? ONE BY ONE???
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i think he means you will have to re-assign each material one by one in 2009?
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I read some info on this and it appears that Revit 2009 will convert some of the default materials. It will put a text string in the comments field of the Identity tab for each material that is not update. The string will read "Material appearance not upgraded." This is to let you quickley identify all materials that weren't converted.
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i think if you open a default 2009 template file with the new materials, open your file, then do transfer project standards and tick materials, it should then redifine the materials and ask you if you want to over write existing.
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Even if you do a transfer project standards, for some reason it won't write ALL of your materials. James is right, the best way to make sure they all transfered is to look for the comments. Slightly a PIA...
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Hey, I have a material where I need some parts to be transparent, and some parts need to be solid colours. Imagine the picture as a stud frame. I need the black parts to look like wood, and I need the white part to be transparent. Could someone please explain to me how I'd do this? Im using RAC2009, so the tutorial in resources doesn't quite help me.
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I'm not sure this can be done... but I'm more of curious as to why? I've noticed in Revit that there are a lot of times where you have to create a work around in order to get your desired effect... I'm curious as to what you are trying to achieve, perhaps there is another way you can achieve the effect you are looking for...
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Hey, I want to do this so I can create a house structural frame. I would just draw a normal wall, and then apply my custom material, so some parts are transparent and some are wood colour. I would like to render it so it looks like the image below, and the black part of my image would be the house frame.
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I don't think it is possible to do what you want with a material, you can make a material see-thru, but I don't think you can make a complex material... What you really need is a framing family to show your studs...or place each "column" and brace etc...I've seen other people dwelving into this arena, creating families that show how a wall is framed, I'd love to do that, but our file size is already 200+ Megs and growing, so not in this project for us!
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I think it is possible. I created a drafting view and used solid fill hatches to create my desired pattern. I created a generic material and used my drafting view pattern in the "cutout" attribute of the material, then applied any colour I wanted. The end result looked like the pictures. Its just a generic wall with my applied material.
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Now that is pretty cool, if that is't new to 2009,I definitely missed that in 2008!
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I know this is an old post but I found it google searching and I figured this would help anyone else who finds it... I created a tutorial on how to Create Custom Materials: http://therevitkid.blogspot.com/2009/05/tutorial-custom-material-creation.html
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