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Daniel Stine hosted the interestingly named RTC class:Mastering Materials: Getting What You Want from Revit In a recent Cadalyst article, he gives a few good material tips. Here are just 3 of them: 1)…
Ever noticed how the Graphic Surface Pattern of a Material will override a Walls surface in a Realistic (ie. materiality / render check) view, but not the edges? Firstly, I don’t think Graphics values…
Many of us were quite disturbed by the 2013 Revit Materials Editor. Aside from its usability (or lack thereof), it seems to be much slower than the 2012 Materials dialog. Until Revit 2014 comes around…
What is the U-Value? It is:Also known as the U-factor or coefficient of heat transmission, a measure of the rate of non-solar heat loss or gain through a material or assembly. U-values gauge how well …
Doug Bowers posted a very informative how-to recently about Autodesk Material Libraries. He shows you how to create a material library, add materials to it, and then share it with other users. A coupl…
Good post over at Andekan on Revit Materials in 2013 – I have reposted three things I found particularly insightful below. First of all – a slight correction. The Andekan post states that:You can’t op…
If you Open a 2012 adsklib file in the Material Browser in Revit 2013, chances are you won’t see any materials (even though Revit claims to be ‘upgrading’ the library). You need to open the .adsklib i…
Have a read of: The New Materials User Interface in Revit 2013: AECbytes Tips and Tricks If you have any other tips, feel free to comment.…
I anticipate there will be a lot of posts about the changes to Materials in 2013, on such topics as: Why did this happen? “I am angry about Materials 2013 for xyz reason” How do I use this? Will this …