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Am I meant to import this family into a project already?!
I was working JUST on the family so I could keep it on a library, with all materials assigned and so that I could load it later when I needed it. What I did was just: "new-family-generic metric family", import the dwg berlino bed and start to work on it.
Is there something wrong with this?
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You can't render the family unless it's in a project. So yes, you need to load it into a project to see how it will render
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I opened up a new project, I clicked components, LOAD, loaded the bed family with the assigned materials, rendered... grey rendering. Ok, what's wrong in here? Is it the family, is it me, is it the shitty program?
Because as much as Revit seems an excelent program I'm getting the feeling I should drop it by now because I can't make something really simple to work even with your help and since I'm not that stupid I assume the fault's the program.
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once loaded into a project, you need to go to Settings/Materials, find the materials that you've mapped to the corresponding parts of the bed and assign Accurender materials to each of those Revit materials
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I might also add that you shouldn't give up on Revit because of something like this. It's a fairly complex thing for a Revit beginner to be doing. One thing that I always stress is that the out-of-box Revit tutorials are very important to learning the program and all new users should take them. It will save you tons of time & frustration down the road.
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Er... yeah, right, and just how do I do that?
I assigned the materials to each corresponding part of the bed, just like it was on the tutorials that were pasted sooner on and I assigned accurender materials/textures to each part of the bed. Is that if? If not, what else?
I'm not trying to learn Revit out of the box. I think its a fairly good program (even better now that version 7.0 has gotten out) and I HAVE been following the tutorials from the beggining, but not until much long ago did I finish the first project model (the one with two wings, connected by a passage way). In the meanwhile I tried to pass the bed to Revit to see if I could import some of my dwg blocks into revit.
(because let's admit it, we're lacking more families)
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This is a hot topic isn't it! Temper temper everyone!
I have downloaded the dwg that gimmecat posted earlier and has quite correctly added layers and assigned meshes to those layers within autocad. However, the problem is within autocad. (as Mr. GG rightly pointed out earlier) What you have done is assigned materials to the individual lines within blocks, BUT, the blocks (for example the block of the pillow) are all on layer 0.
Therefore revit is picking up all the layers as set up within the imported dwg, but in fact they are not being applied to anything as according to the autocad file everything is actually on layer 0, hence the grey rendering. (not sure what you know of autocad, but lines can be drawn on a layer, say layer 1, but if they are part of a block which is on say layer 2, that is what will control their visibility)
To resolve this simply go back to your dwg file, explode it all, as many times as possible. SELECT ALL THE OBJECTS AND MAKE ALL THE OBJECTS BYLAYER IN COLOUR. Double check that for instance the pillow lines are on the pillow layer. Then bring that into your family and assign the materials as I'm sure you have done many times by now.
Do remember: you must associate (within object properties) firstly the layers (within the imported dwg file) to a material, THEN actually give the material an accurender texture (within materials). You've probably already done this but when I looked at your downloaded family, the layers were all assigned to materials, but the material did not have a texture applied to it.
So, good luck.
Max.
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Now I have been realy, realy nice. I have made a new tutorial.
Perhaps hjacobs wants to put it up among the other tutorials.
If he wants to I can make it a little nicer, Not telling what I think of Autocad...
OK! Here is the tutorial. I hope it will help!!!
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PS
Berlino beds in Autocad that is a problem! For sure!!!
But, but, but.... There are bigger problems. What is happening with our planet - our satellite?
WE HAVE TO COOPERATE - HELPING EACH OTHER....
NOT STEALING OIL OR OTHER THINGS FROM EACH OTHER...
I have given you some links about mans ORIGION, HISTORY in the 16th century, TODAY and TOMORROW. Study those links. And Google yourself to get your own picture... and discuss it with others... As I am trying to discuss it with you... Hopefully we can build a peaceful world. And have a look on Zero Point Energy.
http://www.zpenergy.com/
Oil is not the only energy we have got,
USA is a big country with a nice constitution trying to give people freedom,..
But you know now we are a group of 6 billions and how to cooperate?
This is NOT the way I think,..
'Rebuilding America's Defenses,' was written in September 2000
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
On page 63 the authors want to have a new Pearl Harbor....
Bush wrote in his diary 11 sept. 2001:
"The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A43708-2002Jan26¬Found=true
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/schoolvideo.html
Pearl Harbour was a hoax made up of Franklin Roosevelt:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/pearl/www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/
Read what John Pilger a well-known journalist writes about it:
http://pilger.carlton.com/print/124759
And GOOGLE YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know ELECTRICITY IT IS OUR NEW FIRE AND WHEEL.
SO STRONG... ENERGY - SO CLEVER - DATA
WE HAVE TO HANDLE IT WITH CARE....
We are not longer living in small groups - there is it possibel to talk to the other members, feel them, smell them, see them, hear them. And understand that they are humans just as we are...
And the links once more:
Discovery of Electricity ---
---- http://www.jsd.com/electricity.html
---- http://www.americanrevolution.com/BenjaminFranklinElectricity.htm
--- ORIGIN ---
Man is seven million years old. We lived in small groups about a hundred persons:
---- http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2002/august/toumai.htm
HISTORY
We learned to farm 10 000 years ago and we were able to build hierarchical states, cities with millions of people.
In the 16th century Gallileo Gallilei sat in the cathedral of Piza taking his pulse to find out the time it took for a lamp to swing back and forth. He connected time and space with a formula. Natural science was born. The only word - God, Dieux, Allah, Cup, Spoon or whatever one and only name you use for everything was placed in the shadow for a incorrect formula... as all formulas are...
----- http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/03feb00/lesson4.html
TODAY - TOMORROW
And now man can use electricity for all purposes - good and bad.
You have to Google yourself to find out in who to believe eg.
taking down World Trade Center - 911 - Osama or Bush or someone else? - using electricity without understanding the consequenses in a group of 6 billions!!!
--- http://www.fema.gov/library/wtcstudy.shtm
--- http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_fema_911.html
--- http://whatreallyhappened.com/9-11BasicQuestions
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And the tutorial on dwg/dxf files in Autocad and Revit about BERLINO BEDS
Once more - so you can solve that problem...
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Hallo gimmecat!
There did you get the file BERLINO-80.dwg from?
I have tried to Google for it...
And only found this:
http://www.the123d.com/tables/tablep06.shtml
But thai is a BERLINO TABLE!
But the bed???
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GG: The Berlino Bed was modeled by Marcus Sillander, one of the great guys at pushpullbar.com, a site dedicated to architecture and Sketchup (a very very nice modelling program).
Marcus made the bed as a Sketchup component that I then exported to the DWG format. I had a link to a site that had Berlino beds, so believe me, THEY EXIST! 
Oh, I haven't got the time yet to take on the bed after all that was posted, but as soon as I get some results I'm posting them 
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I had a look on: http://pushpullbar.com/
It is really proffessional - architectural - not like Revitcity - they are trying to discuss global questions too... I found - http://www.architectsforpeace.org/ - there. That you cannot find on Revitcity. I hope your bed-design will turn out nice... so I can have a look on your One and Only Bed.... Here is mine: http://revitcity.com/gallery.php?action=view&gallery_id=329
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I've been scratcing my head over thisproblem too - sometimes imported SketchUp (via dwg format) models render OK, sometimes not. If you have them in SketchUp, try painting everything with the "Default" color, including things inside components. Then, export to .dwg format (direct import using .skp doesn't seem to work), and the layers should take the material settings you give them. Good luck.
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if you have the bed as a SkecthUp .skp file. Why not use the Create Mass and bring the SketchUp file into Revit directly.
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