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Hard to say exactly what's going on there. Are you able to post a screenshot of what you're seeing? I'd verify that the material is actually applied to the object you're looking at, then confirm that the material looks how you want within the material editor itself. From there, I'd make sure there aren't any duplicates of the object sitting directly on top of each other that could be interfering with what you're seeing.

There are actually very very similar families already uploaded to Revitcity.com so I would take a look at those. They have some with a brick inset, extension jamb and all the stuff you'd want. It's a shame they can't incorporate better families into the out of box library.

It doesn't necessarily have to be created using a face parameter since some of the lights in the default library will already orient to the slope of the ceiling (recessed cans), but to do a sloped ceiling you have to piece that together. It's unfortunate that they don't have the ability to do multiple slopes in a ceiling like they do with a roof, but that's the world we're stuck with I guess. So you would piece your ceiling together, and then from there lighting is fairly simple if you want can lighting. If you want something like a pendant, I would recommend modeling the light as a family without the escutcheon plate on it and then modeling that in place within the project itself to match whatever the ceiling is doing. Hopefully that all makes a little bit of sense! I would love to do a new series for Revit 2022 but my schedule is pretty hectic these days and I'm no longer teaching the course that I made all of these for so it's more and more difficult to make time for them. If I ever get a little free time, I'll definitely do another series as they seem to have helped a fair number. Glad they've helped in some way!

What you'd probably want is something like this in the Visibility parameter slot for the symbolic lines: IF(AND(3 mullion type = yes, horizontal mullion = yes), Yes, No) Basically what this formula is saying is IF both 3 mullion type and horizontal mullion type are on, then Yes, turn the visibility on, if not, then don't turn the visibility on. Without seeing everything that you have going its a little tough to make sure this formula will work, but hopefully that gives you a good starting point to then tweak a little bit to get it to work for your particular instance.

@@brianalbrecht7859 Thanks, I will try it out. PS. Could I send you a screenshot of what I am doing, so you can have a better idea?

@@valeriepierre7297 I'm not sure a screenshot would be all that helpful since my screen will look entirely different from yours without the other parameters and model built the way you have it.

The aesthetics of your renderings have little to do with the actual render settings. Those settings simply control the crispness of the image. If your renderings aren't turning out to your liking, I would look to your lighting and materials within the model itself and try to improve those.

@@brianalbrecht7859 I still have a lot to learn about lighting in revit but ur video saved my studio board. I used the printer instead of screen and the image came out the crisp and clean compared to what it was like before. So thank you so much.

It really depends on what details you're looking for. If you're looking for a pretty simple straight fascia, the fascia tool could work for you. If you're looking for something like a bird box on the gables or any sort of detail other than just a mitered fascia board running up the rake, you're probably going to have to go to a custom model-in-place extrusion. For most of what I do I end up doing a model-in-place family that I lock to the edge of the roof so if I move the roof, the fascia moves with it. For gutters its similar. If I'm doing a model in place family for my fascia, I throw the gutter in there too as a sweep. If you're sticking with the simple, the gutter tool might work for you (but usually the gutter tool is sort of worthless and only shows gutters in concept rather than in any sort of detailed practice).

Glad they were of some use! I've been trying to find time to update these for about a year now, so hopefully I can get some 2022 versions out!

If I understand your question correctly, you're looking for how to get a material like the refrigerator and pendant lights hanging over the island? That texture is a native texture to Revit actually. It would be the default metal texture, then the type under render appearance would be Stainless Steel, Finish - Semi-polished. That's basically all that texture is.

Unfortunately, unlike most 3D programs, Revit renders using your CPU and not the video card. To improve render times you either have to improve the speed of your CPU or get something with more cores. The same processing speed CPU with 2 cores will render at half the speed of something with 4 cores, etc. etc. There's been talk of switching the rendering engine in revit for something that uses the video card in the past but I think that's probably a MAJOR undertaking and would be a lot of rework for the program in general so it hasn't really been done. Hope that helps...or rather, explains why I can't help much there haha.

If you look under the Manage tab, there is a "Snaps" option where you can turn a variety of different snaps and tracking on and off. You may have some of those off that could help.

@@brianalbrecht7859 Thanks ever so much. Awesome videos by the way. I've learned so much while replicating this house. You are really good at teatching. Have you got any other videos or courses other than here? Families or Rendering maybe?

@@vidatom15 I don't unfortunately. I created these a while back for a course I was teaching at a university, but they've since gotten rid of that class due to COVID so I haven't updated any of the videos to the new versions as of yet. I may find time eventually to refine these and do them a little better, but otherwise this is all I have at the moment. Glad they've been of some help!

It should be located in the Lighting -> Interior Lighting folder in the stock library for Revit.

@@brianalbrecht7859 where do i download the stock library?

@@mariannasciarradesousa4567 Sorry for the delayed response. Depending on your Revit version, you can find links to all of the stock libraries here: knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Where-to-find-Revit-Content-Libraries-to-download.html

What kind of settings do you have for your rendering?

Sometimes those kinds of bugs in the system can be solves by downloading the latest patch. I would check the Autodesk website to see if there's an update. That might solve the issue.

@@brianalbrecht7859 yeah i updated it and problem solved, thanks

Sorry they didn't work for you! Hope you find something that helps!

He explains it very thoroughly and doesn't even move that fast. Just rewind real quick if you don't see something. I mean he's making hour long videos for us, are you really going to complain he needs to spend a bunch of time on every tool and navigation?

Yeah, sorry about the audio quality. I'm not really in the best acoustic environment, and this junky quality is only after I had surrounded myself with as many hanging blankets as I could rig up and it still wasn't enough. As for the grout and doing it on a new layer before mirroring, that's an option, but only if you aren't planning on fading one copy into another, otherwise you'll have to fade the grout in as well.

Can you clarify a bit more what you're asking? I'm not sure I understand your question.

A lot of it I'll build myself, but every now and then you'll find something decent on Revitcity.com or Turbosquid.com for free. You can also find full packages of furniture on Turbosquid for a fairly hefty price if you want to have a library of stuff immediately.

The Graphic Tab within materials is what your materials will look like in plan, elevation, and section for a drawing set when they are visible. The Render Appearance tab is what your materials will look like when rendered or when your view is set to Realistic as opposed to Hidden Line, Wireframe, or Shaded view types.

So glad they're of some use to you! Happy to help wherever I can!

I have never found a single tutorial or method to put the fascia where it is supposed to be. This one is not it. Have you found a way to do it right?

Completely agree with John and Dean. As John mentioned, the negative horizontal offset better represents the real world fascia location. This worked well in my renderings until I found pitched fascias do not miter to horizontal fascias. Other issue - can the fascia not be referenced to the roof's Core Boundary rather than the top side of the assembly? Mr. Brian Albrecht, it's apparent you have real world experience and are a master at revit. Would love to get your feedback!

John, I appreciate the feedback. I wouldn't consider these beginner tutorials at all. These are more meant for those who have a grasp of some of the tools already and are looking to get into more complexity and how to put all the tools together. I have other videos beyond the house tutorial series that break down the individual tools and would be more suited to someone who is just starting out or trying to figure out individual tools.

The new rendering engine (I hate it. Absolutely hate that they took away the ability to control more parts of the rendering engine) is dependent on levels. If you haven't rendered for long enough or enough levels it will be really gritty. You'll notice that Draft, Medium, High, and Best have increasingly more levels which corresponds to a more precise image at the end.

My PC is actually pretty old at this point (getting close to 9 or 10 years). The keys in building a good PC for Revit are in the processor. Unlike other 3D graphic programs, Revit's rendering engine is propelled by the processor rather than the graphics card for the most part. So a quad core machine is going to render about twice as fast as a dual core of the same type. I have a 6 core Intel i7. It used to render incredibly fast, but with age it's started to slow down a bit. I'm not saying the graphics card does nothing for you, but if you have to choose between an upgraded processor and upgraded graphics card and you're worried about Revit, go with the processor.

I'm actually not sure that I still have this exact file. However, next week I'm going to start a new series doing something very similar and I'll have a public google drive where I'll upload the file after each video so people can download it and get into it a little more. So if you can hold out for just a little bit, I'll have that up and running.

Brian Albrecht ok that sounds great, keep up the good work man.