From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Completing the family

Completing the family - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

Start my 1-month free trial

Completing the family

- [Instructor] There's a few finishing touches I'd like to add to our family file before we load it into a project and give it its final test. So, the first thing we're going to do is add a material to the surface of the playing table to give it that recognizable green felt, and then we're going to add some accessories to the pool table as well, and then we'll load it into the project. So, let's start with the material. Any of the solid elements in your family file can be assigned to a material directly or a material parameter. So, what I'm going to do is work right in 3D and I'm going to select the extruded element that represents the playing surface of this family. Now with that selected I can look over at the Properties palette, and if you scroll down here you can see that there's a material property. Now, it's possible to click right here where it says By Category, browse and assign the material directly. But even though the green felt is very popular, sometimes people choose…

Contents