To open Material Goggles go to Toolbox → Material Goggles. In this case we are going to check the materials from the walls so in the Categories menu choose Walls. To go faster to the desired category click on any of the categories from the beginning and then type the first letter of the category you want, in this case “W”.
To select all the elements that contain a specific material click on that material in the Model Data list. Also, notice that the option Select must be chosen in the Mode menu. To remove the selection click anywhere on the Revit canvas.
To isolate the elements with a specific material in the Mode menu click on Isolate. So, you can get a temporary view where you only see these elements. To go back to the previous view on the Paint menu you can click on Clear. Or you can exit the Material Goggles menu and click on Temporary Hide/Isolate on the bottom ribbon (the sunglasses icon). Notice that due to Revit limitations, leaving the Isolate option active does not mean that it will still be working. To make it work properly again click on other category, as this is the way to refresh the plugin or simply close the menu and open it again.
To paint the elements that contain a specific material select the material in the Model Data menu and on the Paint tab click on Selected. Click then somewhere in the Revit interface if the elements get selected in Revit to see the elements colored. To remove the paint click on Clear in the Paint menu. You can also exit Material Goggles to remove the filters.
If you use the option All in the Paint menu, all elements get a color of at least one of the materials that compose them, but not all the colors corresponding to the materials that the elements contain. This feature is only useful when you are analyzing elements that only contain one materials. In this example you can see that there are walls that contain both the “Brown” and the “Default Wall” materials. When clicking on All, the plugin colors some these walls using the color of the “Default Wall” material and not the color corresponding to the “Brown” material.
