Part of our design workflow is to save older versions of a design in case a file becomes corrupted, or when we make larger changes that we may at some point need to reverse. This means that the file name may begin ending with v1.0, but finish with v3.6 for example. This means that through our design process, the name of the source file for D5 necessarily changes, in this case it’s a .3dm Rhino file.
Unfortunately, we’ve discovered that D5 currently doesn’t seem to support changing out a model and retaining the material ID assignments. Before our switch to D5, we used Lumion which had a similar problem but solved it with a feature that allowed us to save Material ID assignments as a file that could be re-imported should the assignments break when updating a model.
I’m not sure if there is a work-around for this, or if this is just something that we’ll have to wait on a feature for. I hope you guys can shed some light on it!
Thank you for posting here. To confirm, did you use this Reload button to “re-reference the model”?
In that case, since you have changed the file name, the Reload function may not work, and it asked you to replace the file with a new model?
If in this way, the model cannot keep its previous materials applied.
The solution is that you can use our live-sync plugin for Rhino, in this way, after you change model from v1.0 to 3.6, you just need to open Rhino then sync to D5 again, and those materials that have been applied will not get lost.
Hi imo00,
Thanks for the updates, now I understand the process and know what’s going wrong.
In this page, you can click " show all models" , then find the old model in this scene and select it, for example, “model v2.1”, then you will be able to replace it here:
