Materials, Visualization, Rendering - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 211

4. The Material Browser dialog appears. Type Brick into the search
field at the top of the list. Double-click the Masonry - Brick material
that appears in the list on the left. This is the material you edited
in the previous exercise. Click OK to close the Edit Assembly dialog,
and click OK again to close the Type Properties dialog. The drawing
updates dramatically by replacing the gray material with a nice red
brick shading!
5. You've now applied your new material called Brick to all the walls of
the type Basic Wall 8 1/2 ″ (21 cm) Masonry throughout your model.
You can follow the same steps to apply materials to floors, roofs, and
other walls in your projects.
This concludes Exercise 9.2. You can compare your results with the sample
ile c09-ex-09.2end.rvt included in the chapter's download.
Designing with generic elements
Developing your building design from generic ideas to specific elements plays
an important role in your Revit Architecture workflow. When you're creating
your design, it's not practical to invest time defining wall layers and material
properties until you're ready. If you get too specific too soon, you might become
frustrated.
Generic elements and materials help convey the intent of your design and allow
your ideas to stay flexible. They'll help you emphasize where something is as
well as some of what something is, without getting into the detail of how it's
supposed to be assembled. Most of the frustration in design comes from work-
ing from specific to general, rather than the other way around. Designing with
generic elements will help you avoid this trap.
graphic Display Options
Now that you understand the basics of assigning building materials to your
model elements, you will open an example file that has many materials and
views already set up. You'll use this model to create a presentation drawing of an
elevation and a 3D isometric drawing. You won't use rendering, just the tech-
niques available in the Graphic Display Options.