Beyond actually creating custom materials this would be the number one question I get when it comes to material management. Here is the scenario:
I have a project that I have created a bunch of new materials (or modified a bunch of defaults ones). I tweaked and rendered these materials to point where I am finally happy. Now, I want to bring these materials into a different project that has already been started. How do I accomplish this?!
For a while, I was making sure the material and asset names were unique and I would copy/paste elements with those materials applied into the new project... Yeah, I did... Not anymore! Wait until you see how easy it is to share materials between Revit projects.
First, you need to understand that a materials and and asset are two DIFFERENT things.
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