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Using material listings, administrators can manage the materials in their library and the information embedded within them. This can be done for a single material by clicking its More menu button menu, or for multiple materials by clicking the Select button.

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Enabling Materials Management in Kinship

Materials Management in Kinship is disabled by default. If you need to enable it, you can do so by following the steps below:
  1. Open the Settings dialog from the avatar menu.
  2. Navigate to the Project Tracking section.
  3. Activate the toggle for Materials.
Users will need to launch a new session of Revit after this setting is enabled for it to take effect.
Enable Materials Management

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Available actions

The following actions are available for administrators:
  • Open In…: Specify a Revit version to open the material(s) in. This opens a sample file containing the material applied to a placeholder family, for review.
  • Change Material Class: Specify a Class to assign the material(s) to. Note that each material can only have one Class.
  • Attach Files: Upload files as attachments to the material(s).
  • Add to List: Add the material(s) to a new or existing list in your library.
  • Copy to Collection: Copy the material(s) to a collection while keeping the current copy in your library.
  • Move to Collection: Move the material(s) to a collection and remove it/them from your library.
  • Set as Pending Approval: Mark the material(s) as pending approval and remove from the library.
  • Edit Info: Review and change material properties.

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Edit Info

Using the Edit Info dialog, you can review or change the properties below for one or more materials:
  • Description
  • Class
  • Revit Annotation Parameters (Keynote and Mark)
  • Reference Links
Sending back this modified information to Revit will be available in an upcoming release.
Edit Info dialog for materials showing description, class, reference links, and Revit annotation fields
When multiple materials are selected, inputting a new value into any of the fields above will change it for all of those materials.
For non-administrators, this dialog is called Get Info and provides the same information for viewing only.

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How Kinship will upload the materials

When a material is uploaded to Kinship, the material image is stored in the library and its filepath is saved as a relative path.

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Learn more

Materials Overview

Understand how to use Kinship to build, organize and search within your library of Revit materials.

Material Item Page

Learn about the rich information provided for each material and how to use it to inform selection and comparison.

Material Classes

Organize materials using classes, including creating, merging, deleting, and managing unassigned materials.

Appearance Asset Types

Learn about appearance asset types in Revit materials and how they’re organized in Kinship.