Hey, is there a workflow to change one material project wide into another material, without going through family by family for instance we have two aluminum material in the project, and we want to consolidate them all as one, can i combine them under one material?
thanks for the help
As I understand it the Material API isn't very open and things that should be fairly simple like that are not currently possible
Might be possible with Dynamo though.
so i shall assume it is not possible, and i should look forward to a mat swap fun party
if anyone has a magical solution, you will be my hero, if not, sigh yey revit haha
If it is just the appearance it would not be super hard. You can assign the same appearance asset to multiple materials. But if you need them to change names to a new material there is no real great way to do it except through brute force.
If the family has shared parameters for material then you should be able to change them in a schedule (this reason is why my material parameters are usually shared). If not try creating a material take off schedule, sort by Material: Name and uncheck itemize every instance. Then click into a field in the schedule and switch to a model view, this should have all of the families of that material selected, then using the properties filter change to the different family types and change the appropriate property. I haven't tried this for this exact scenario but have used material take offs for similar things in the past.
Thanks I hope the schedule approach works, that would be the most comprehensive way
If the material is not used in the project anywhere where you don't want to change it you could just duplicated the material, change the original material to what you want it to be then rename the duplicate to the original name (take away the '1' after the name). That is of course if you want to retain the original material in your library. Otherwise just overwrite the material.
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