Support more Revit materials

Enscape Requests
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1

Advanced Functionality in Enscape Material Editor to be able to read Revit Advanced Materials as well.

Submitted on AHA Ideas by f.riaz (ENSCAPE-I-1214).

2

Compatibility with Revit Physical materials.

Enscape now it can rendern REVIT Physical materials. and they actually look better than the standard REVIT material, but the Physical material do not show on the Enscape materials, also if you inport from other app they are transform to regular REVIT material not Physical. There is a big difference how light work with Enscape and REVIT Physical material they just look better.

Submitted on AHA Ideas by francisco.penaloza.

3

Support for Revit Procedural Materials.

In Revit we can quickly create and edit complex custom textures like brick or tile by changing the color, texture of the tile and joints for example, individually. Enscape does not support these materials, forcing us to resort to Photoshop to make any adjustment to these very common materials.

Submitted on AHA Ideas by rolandg.

4

Enscape does not support Revit’s non-generic materials in the material editor. That makes for an often awkward workflow:

  1. user goes in enscape material editor to edit a material

  2. notices material is missing

  3. the user needs to realize this is because of the wrong appearance schema (my experience is that most don’t)

  4. close enscape material editor

  5. open revit material editor

  6. locate material

  7. convert to generic

8 ) close revit material editor

  1. open enscape material editor

  2. locate material (for the third time now)

  3. make actual edits

This could be much improved by finetuning the behavior in the Enscape material editor to make working with Revit PBR materials easier.

For example, you could show non-generic materials (instead if just hiding them) and when selected say “non generic materials are not supported. Do you want to convert to a generic material”? and show a button to convert to generic (Revit has a built-in method for this you can call).

Submitted on AHA Ideas by Pieter Schiettecatte.

5

AHA Ideas status: Planned.
Set during AHA Ideas to Discourse migration.