Effective Material Assignment in Revit

Join Thesla Collier, Design Technology Officer, as she discusses a common practice in which users duplicate elements and change wall types for documentation, leading to difficulties in quantifying insulation. 


Discover how Ideate BIMLink can efficiently changes core material in walls, which addresses a limitation in Revit, where querying layers of system families in schedules is not possible. Check out this workflow and explore its capabilities, so that you no longer have to modify each wall individually.

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