Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC, User Manual

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For more information, see... Do this... To migrate...
Migrating Plants on page 27,
Plants and Entourage on page 1139
Do either of the following: AccuRender procedural plants
■
Open the project, and manually replace each 2008
plant family with a 2009 plant family.
■
Open the 2008 plant family in the Family Editor.
Select Settings menu
➤
Family Category and
Parameters. For Rendering Appearance Source, se-
lect Third Party, and click OK. In the Family Type,
for Render Appearance, specify an RPC file for the
plant. Save the plant family.
Migrating Decals on page 27,
Decals on page 1152
No action required. Decals are automatically upgraded
to work with Revit Architecture 2009. decals
Migrating Render Appearances for Materials
In Revit Architecture 2009, some materials migrate automatically to use the new render appearances. For
other materials, new render appearances will need to be assigned manually.
NOTE Glow, smoothness, and shininess are no longer supported for Revit materials. However, render appearances
for materials may have similar properties. When you upgrade a project to Revit Architecture 2009, all materials
from earlier Revit releases are converted to have no glow, no smoothness, and no shininess.
For more information, see Materials on page 459.
Render Appearances that Migrate Automatically
In Revit Architecture 2009, new render appearances have been assigned to all materials that are used in Revit
families or templates and that previously used AccuRender definitions. When you upgrade a project that
uses these materials, the materials are updated to use the new render appearances.
For these materials, each 2008 render appearance is mapped to a new 2009 render appearance, based on a
match of the AccuRender definition name. If you modified an AccuRender definition without changing its
name, the modified AccuRender appearance is updated to use the 2009 render appearance.
NOTE Revit Architecture 2009 does not change the names of any existing materials in a project.
Render Appearances that Require Manual Updates
Revit Architecture 2009 assigns a default render appearance to the following:
■ Materials that are not used in Revit families or templates
■ Materials that use custom AccuRender definitions in Revit 2008 or prior releases
In rendered images, this default render appearance displays as gray, and the material’s Comments field
displays the following text:
Rendering appearance not upgraded
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