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Wolfishfish

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Hello! I have a small problem with my materials. The thing is when I change the material for one element automatically it affects another. For example I set my floor finish as white marble. Then I create a model in place as a furniture and set its material as a red plastic. So I start rendering and my furniture and my floor finish become red plastic. So it seems to me which material was added the last is the one which appears on rendering... 

Another example: I created a railing, and set the materials as blue glass. Then I created a tube which I set as green glass..When I render evrth becomes green glass..Pls help.

P.S. When I select the material revit asks replace or keep both, I always select "kepp both" but stil...

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I would assume you are not duplicating and changing the material in the correct spot so your process is most likely wrong. What version of revit are you using

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Wolfishfish

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Revit 2012. I guess the process is wrong. I normally duplicate, but when it comes to models in place I didn't see "duplicate" option.

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