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Chaos Enscape Ideas Portal

The online platform for Enscape users to submit, vote, and collaborate on creative suggestions.

Status Accepted
Created by Pieter Schiettecatte
Created on Oct 10, 2023
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit ENSCAPE-I-1214 Support more Revit materials.

Enscape Portal - new idea - Nice to have Merged

Enscape does not support Revit's non-generic materials in the material editor. That makes for an often awkward workflow:


1) user goes in enscape material editor to edit a material

2) notices material is missing

3) the user needs to realize this is because of the wrong appearance schema (my experience is that most don't)

4) close enscape material editor

5) open revit material editor

6) locate material

7) convert to generic

8 ) close revit material editor

9) open enscape material editor

10) locate material (for the third time now)

11) make actual edits


This could be much improved by finetuning the behavior in the Enscape material editor to make working with Revit PBR materials easier.


For example, you could show non-generic materials (instead if just hiding them) and when selected say "non generic materials are not supported. Do you want to convert to a generic material"? and show a button to convert to generic (Revit has a built-in method for this you can call).