From the course: Revit 2019: Custom Furniture Modeling
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Material override parameters - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2019: Custom Furniture Modeling
Material override parameters
- [Instructor] I now want to add materials to my bin, since I've brought into my bookshelf. And the way I want to do it, there's actually two ways I could do this. I could have assigned an overall material to the bin itself, and then when I brought it into the bookshelf it would always have that material. However, it doesn't give you that much control over what it looks like. You may have different colors or different materials that apply to the same component in this file. So, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to apply a custom override parameter to the materials section for the different components, so I have a little bit more control. So, the thing that I'm going to do is, I'm going to select my small bin, and I'm going to start with it. And what I need to do is, I actually need to go into it's file. So, I'm going to click up top where it says Edit Family. What this does is it places me into the small bins Family Editor. And you'll see, it's just all by itself. I'm next going…
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