I want a red sphere (no image this time :smiley: ) It’s creating the material but not applying it to the family. Why not? [image]

You got my hopes up… But it didn’t work :frowning: [image]

Confirm the material is correct in the material browser. Confirm the object has the material applied. Try to narrow down where the failure is occurring. Are you sure you’re providing the correct inputs to the material creation?

It has created ‘red’ material that is red shading and red foreground solid fill. If I edit the family (generic model in this case)… I get material So it’s not applying the material in the family. So my guess is still that it’s creating a material in the Revit model, not in the family and this is the issue.

[image] Alien: So my guess is still that it’s creating a material in the Revit model, not in the family and this is the issue. That’s how I would expect this to work. If you’re wanting to create a material inside the family and apply it there then that would be a different process. I’m guessing this node is setup to create the material in the active document. Also, make sure you have a transaction with the passthrough to make sure the material exists before you assign it. Dynamo can’t assign a material that doesn’t exist yet.

My wording is probably confusing. I’m saying, “I am not quite sure why it doesn’t work (am guessing this is the reason but am not sure), please tell me how to make it work”

Recreating your script, the Springs node “FamilyInstance.ByGeometry” doesn’t appear to create a material parameter to apply the material too.

Try… Whereever this geometry is being created initially in the script turn off “preview” in dynamo and all the the subsiquent nodes ie unions up until the family instance by geometry, so thay only the familyinstance by geometry solid solid is being previewed maybe?

It’s not the dynamo hiding the colour. The sphere does not have the material applied.

If anyone is wondering why I keep asking questions about spheres… This is what I’m working on: [image] A silly DIY L-system tree script :smiley:

Why is my sphere not red?

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Marcel_Rijsmus December 1, 2023, 9:04pm 21

Its all here on the forum in the share categorie of questions

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Why is my sphere not red?

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