A nice example of how to work with materials - Revit 2009-10

[Eduardo Rolon]

Envy!

http://designreform.net/2009/07/21/revit-2010-splitting-faces-and-painting-materials/

[Anonymous]

Bah humbug!

[Anonymous]

quickly and conveniently

[Rob]

OMG, now I do understand why there is so much bitching about the ribbon UI

That's an absolute crap for god sake.... and the particular feature implementation too BTW.

[Anonymous]

I realized that this talk is not about ribbon, but about division of the wall into materials.

[Rob]

yes thank you for reminding me but I reckon that's what the second line of my reply addresses mate.

so again. The way how it is implemented in Revit is a real mess. I fully agree with Steve's short but very well put expression.

[MMontgomery]

I'm assuming one would still need to draw the wall section correctly once brick is applied to the lower half of the wall.

A stretchable complex profile can be created in half the time it took to modify that wall - and end up with something not only reusable through the rest of the project but more importantly, accurate in section.

[Eduardo Rolon]

AFAIK I wrote 'Materials' not ribbon, not modeling.

What is nice IMO is how to create a new material by splitting one and adding another.

… without having to draw it first, then create a new fill in the attribute manager, then pasting what was already drawn, then creating a new material and assign the fill. Then open Photoshop and create the texture to assign to the new material.

[Chazz]

Don't get hung up in the dunderheadedness of the ribbon, there is real gold here.

I love the idea that you could change the location of an element by editing its dimension string text. Or at least looking that the video suggested this could be done. I think that would be a very powerful input method (and one I never thought of).

[Rick Thompson]

Chazz wrote:
I love the idea that you could change the location of an element by editing its dimension string text. Or at least looking that the video suggested this could be done. I think that would be a very powerful input method (and one I never thought of).

That's the one that I wanted to. What a great way to nudge a window or wall.. or whatever. That could be very useful. Splitting a wall and applying a different material is quite nice too.