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I'm trying to create a window family and the color of the windows are not appearing correctly when rendered. At first i tried it as plain glass, color gray, reflectance 20, transparency 80, 2 sheets of glass, no tint, and graphics are set to use render appearance. When i saved and loaded this family into the project, it rendered with no glass panes in the windows, and showed everything clearly that is on the inside of the window.

I then changed the material to a mirror with the mirror tint color gray and graphics transparency set to 80. When i loaded this into the project and overrode the existing family and parameter values, and then rendered again with the same render settings, the window panes appeared black in the final rendering.

Just to test to see if i was missing a setting, i went back and retried both the glass and mirror setting, changing all color options to bright lime green, and the final rendering was still as it originally was. Can someone please help me to get the settings correct? Im using Revit 2012. Thanks in advance.

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Learn this lesson " THE PROJECT RULES ".

Once a family has been loaded into a project, the project now controls that material name no matter how you redefine it in the family. 

Projects usually have 'Glass' defined when you start - let's say it is set to soda green color.  If you created a window family and define the pane area as 'Glass' which you set as blue, when this family is loaded, it will show up as soda green in the project.  If you purge the family from the project and purge 'Glass' from the materials in the project, then the blue in your family will be loaded and work.

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Thank you very much! I had no idea that the project settings overrode the family settings.

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