Why is it so difficult to get colors to show up?

@angel.velez - The below screenshot shows a file created with the BlenderBIM Add-on which has two cubes, with one cube assigned a colour by shape, and another cube assigned another colour by material. Both use IfcSurfaceStyleRendering.

The screenshot shows colours displaying when an IFC is opened as a regular file.

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The screenshot shows colours displaying when an IFC is linked into a Revit model.

The sample file is here: revit-color.ifc (8.4 KB)

As you can see, Revit does support both colour assignment techniques, as well as the IfcSurfaceStyleRendering, however, there are caveats.

There are two ways to assign colour: by material and by shape, as shown in CV-2x3-131 and the documentation.

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