# Family material enscape issue, help please

**URL:** <https://forums.chaos.com/t/family-material-enscape-issue-help-please/176873>\
**Category:** Issues\
**Tags:** revit2023, enscap33, enscape-revit\
**Created:** [March 7, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/family-material-enscape-issue-help-please/176873 "2023-03-07T11:24:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Monarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Monarch](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Monarch)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/family-material-enscape-issue-help-please/176873/1 "2023-03-07T11:24:24Z")

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Hello, I have this chandelier family that i created and added materials in revit.

if i use enscape with the family itself i can see the model and the material just finelike the first photo. if i add the family i can see the material in revit (2nd photo) and i transfered the material from the modeled family to my project just in case but for some reason it does not show in enscape, it always comes out greyed. I opened a new project and imported the family/materials and it works fine. what can be the issue as i need it to work in this specific project. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![phil\_read](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/phil_read/32/205699_2.png) [@phil\_read](https://forums.chaos.com/u/phil_read)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/family-material-enscape-issue-help-please/176873/2 "2023-03-07T18:30:40Z")

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Perhaps there’s already a material in the project with the same name and the imported material from the family is using that material. Look at the material settings in the project using the same name.

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**Author:** ![Monarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Monarch](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Monarch)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/family-material-enscape-issue-help-please/176873/3 "2023-03-09T09:42:27Z")

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Thank you so much! the family imported had the same layer names as another family so the materials clashed.