A more accurate effect could be obtained using a roofing tile material with two maps made in photosop.
How to make standing seam metal roof revit.
You can set how it should be displayed in the project graphically in 3d and how it should be displayed in the rendering.
Relief pattern custom image a gray scale or white and black bitmap i made it in photoshop.
Relief pattern custom image tile procedural.
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I use a material called roofing metal standing seam that i set to use an ootb relief pattern called standing seam png to control the render appearance and a simple model surface pattern called standing seam 16 etc to control it s graphics for plans and elevations and it works great.
My way o doing that is material roofing metal with relief pattern i use either.
You need to select standing seam roofing in the render appearance library and you can specify it s appearance more at the metal settings.
I guess it depends on how specific you want it to look.
In the attached screencast i ve shown both ways.
Revit tutorial 3d standing seam metal roof in 6 minutes.
Basically the idea stemmed from wanting a quick way to represent standing seam metal roof ridges in three dimensions.