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Hello, I've been designing a number of random components for Revit 2009, but am unable to assign a material to any of them because I don't seem to have any materials other then the few shown in the image that hopefully attached. Does anyone know what might be causing this or how I could possibly copy and paste the materials from my co-workers computer into a folder on my computer? This is very frustrating so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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In the family editor, there are only a few basic materials provided. Anything beyond that, you have to add. Be careful though. Materials of the same name in the project will always over-ride materials in the family.... exmp ... say you create a material XZ1 - assign it color blue and there is no material like it in the project. Fine, you load this family and it will be blue. Now lets say at some future date (or maybe sometime in the past) you have another family and in it you assign a "ne" material XZ1 and you assign it green. But , when you load this - the element is blue even though it was green in the family. Got it?
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Thanks for the tip. This helps somewhat but still doesn't explain to my why the material editor on my coworker's computer has a huge list of materials that were installed with the program, where as mine only has 6.
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Sorry but you need to look again. The templates that are installed only have minimum materials. The project template has a lot of materials. You can individually add materials to a template and you can use transfer project standards to transfer materials to a template but this would not be wise. Ther is no need to have any more materaials in a family than what you use. You need to talk to the other user. BTW - In-place families do not use the templates - they have the project materials. Perhaps you are looking at that.
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