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Good Day Eh.

I am getting frustrated with the stacked wall. I have drawn a stacked wall figuring i could just change the finish of the brick to stone, later on. I have gotten to the later on part now, and can't get it to change and can't find any options to change it. I have searched here for a solution, and read a post saying to edit the family. I haven't been able to do that either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, i want to change a regular wall texture. I have searched out these answers as well, and only got confused. Our office has some hatch patterns we use in ACAD, can we use some of them in Revit? I have found the .pat file that has the hatches, do i copy and paste the hatch text into the revit .pat file?

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How many wall types are in your stacked wall?  You must edit each wall type individually.  You can only change the wall types within the stacked wall when editing the stacked wall.

When assigning a texture to an element, you must edit the material.  You will do this in the elements properties window and its sub-windows.  Revit has default textures, but I do believe you can load patterns from ACAD.

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Check which wall family types you have in your stacked wall.  Find those walls (generic/exterior/interior, etc.) in your wall family types.  You have to change each wall type individually as you wish.  If you want to change your finish from brick to stone, then you would copy and rename your brick wall type and replace the brick material with stone by editing the structure of that particular wall family.  After following these steps you will have to change which wall types you want for your revised stacked wall. 

 Is that enough info for you...let me know if you need more instruction.

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again thanks for the info jon. really appreciate it. I think i finally figured it out. and i figured out how to change the finish, and add my own finish (hatch). My head feels a lot better, a couple hours of banging it against the wall, and finally breaking through the problem, is one of the greatest feelings.

 i'm gonna keep on truckin' with your help, and i know i will finally get through the wall, bloody head and all.

again, thanks jon

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SUCCESS!!!! got it all figured.

thanks jon

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