What's the advantage of using Rhino.Inside materials nodes?

[Liam_Presser]

I’m a little new to Rhino.Inside, but I’m very interested in parametric modeling and automation strategies that make work flows better. I’m wondering what the advantage of using Rhino.Inside to edit/add materials to Revit is. How can that possibility best be used? It seems to me that if you are just trying to change one material its better to just do that in Revit. What am I missing? Can you not assign material in Revit to instances created in Revit through Rhino.Inside? Any insight would be helpful. Thank you.

[Japhy]

Hi Liam,

There are a number of cases i’ve seen where adding materials via RiR has been invaluable.

Here the user is creating over 6000 materials (not saying this is a great idea)

Export Geometry / Mesh from Rhino to Revit through Rhino Inside Revit

Is there any chance to speed up the Convert Material component’s work? My mesh to convert material color is not so big (6555 numbers of surfaces) but converting material take more ttan 10 or 13 minutes. This totally freezes both the grasshopper and revit work for that minutes. Any suggestion how to get sun analysis mesh result from Grasshopper/Ladybug to Revit but in faster way? [Image]

Creating a custom material for Curtain Wall Panels that match the name and designation is another good one.

Anywhere where you are looking to be more data driven where you want to align a particular property with a visual material/name.

Editing one material isn’t going to be as quick as the ui, but finding a particular material in comparison with a list of possibilities (if it was used or not) is a simple exercise.