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Using a cutout map in a custom material

Using a cutout map in a custom material

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Using a cutout map in a custom material

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- [Instructor] This week, we're going to talk about the cutout feature for materials. So if you've ever created a custom material, then you know there's lots of properties that you can configure. And I'd like to focus on cutout this week, which is a way of representing transparency, but not so much transparency, it's more like voids within a material. So using a cutout image, which is just a simple black and white image, the black areas of the image will appear as if they are penetrations through the material. So I'm going to start with this really simple example of this wifi sign. So back in the background here in Revit, you can see I've got the sign mounted on the wall, and I'm going to take this image that I have here in the foreground and apply it to the surface of that sign. And the black areas in this image are going to appear to be penetrating through the sign as cutouts within the sign material. Now, is this the…

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