Assiging Materials

After importing and placing your object as an import CAD symbol materials must be assigned. Through trial and error, I have found that assigning materials immediately after importing adds to less confusion later. When importing as an import CAD gerneric rendering materials are applied to the object. This typically a matte gray color.

The work and tips presented earlier will allow for ease in assigning desired materials. These imported materials are put in the 'unassigned' category of the Material Class tab. It should be easier to find the different materials by looking at their display material colors. If you assigned the color as bright purple in SketchUP it should be that display color.

*you might try cahnging the display color and hitting 'apply' to make sure that the material you are looking at is the one you think.

Once you are sure that you have the desired material rename it by clicking the a][b button (a, cursor symbol, b)

Next, click the 'render appearances' tab.
Click the 'Replace' button and search for the desired material.

A helpful tutorial from RevitKid explains the way to replace materials and how to create custom materials. HERE

Repeat until all materials are assigned. It is helpful to run test renderings to decide if the materials you selected are rendering properly.