Is it possible to add color to a surface?

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Hi,

I think the answer is no but I want to be sure. I’m creating surfaces in the Dynamo preview, I’d like to use different colors for each surface.

Thank you,

Dan

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Currently not as you’re probably thinking, you can currently use revit’s visualization nodes to color the surfaces in the revit view, I believe Mantis Shrimp package also has some nodes to make this easier.

but! it’s in the works

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Not, in Dynamo preview window. I think Ian posted a few times that he’s working on it, but nothing was published yet.

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Hi Michael,

What visualization nodes are your referring too?

Hi Konrad, thank you for the reply, I’ll look for the Ian posts.

Thanks,

Dan

 

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Dan,

This is not the most straight forward way of doing things, but I think what Michael is referring to is a post that I made about hacking Autodesk Visualization Framework to use it as a visualization tool. Here’s the link:

It’s not fool, proof and doesn’t always work due to some strange behavior from Revit when importing surfaces, but it can be done this way.

 

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Hi Konrad,

I’ll take a look. Thanks again!

Dan