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Configuring and painting materials to an in-place family

Configuring and painting materials to an in-place family - Revit Tutorial

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Configuring and painting materials to an in-place family

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- [Voiceover] In this quick video, what I'd like to show you is how to add different materials to the desk without having to reconfigure it or create a bunch of different sweeps and extrusions. So I'm gonna jump into my In-Place Paint model. Now I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna select my reception desk. I'm gonna click Edit In-Place. Now that we're editing this in-place, we can do a few things with this already extruded item. What I'd like to do now is to go the Modify tab. On the Modify tab, I wanna click on the Paint button right here. Now this gives us a list of all of our materials. I'm gonna go down 'til I find cherry. Now with cherry selected, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna zoom into this countertop, I'm gonna select the top of it, I'm gonna select my little bullnose sweep, and I'm gonna select the face of it here. I'm gonna pan around. Notice that I was able to completely alter that material. I can grab the face here, do the same thing, I can grab this edge and do the same…

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