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    Active Member
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    revit to sketchup

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    04-12-2012 03:27 PM

    So i have designed in revit this beautiful building for my thesis project and it is very curvy and i have tried several different ways to import it into sketchup but every time i do the buildings curves are such a mess that i can't even work with it. Is there a way to import without loosing the design? please help!

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    vector2
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    Re: revit to sketchup

    04-12-2012 04:20 PM in reply to: sabtf7

    SketchUp doesn't do curves.

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    Re: revit to sketchup

    04-12-2012 04:39 PM in reply to: vector2

    Is there a way to make my building into a component or something.. There must be some kind of setting to help it export as a simplified curve right?

     

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    Re: revit to sketchup

    04-12-2012 04:47 PM in reply to: sabtf7

    "a way to make my building into a component"

     

    Please explain in more ways than one what you mean by that.

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    Re: revit to sketchup

    04-12-2012 05:05 PM in reply to: vector2

    I just started using revit about a month ago so I don't know any of the tricks or techniques to making a building more simplified in terms of file size, or grouping walls so they stick together. When I say massing I mean importing what I have as one object so that if I were to import it into sketchup it wouldn't freak out on me because the building would be one large piece. On another note would it help if I exported my revit file to another program before importing it to sketchup or are there any buttons I can click to help the export better define the curved geometry.

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    Re: revit to sketchup

    04-12-2012 10:45 PM in reply to: sabtf7

    have you tried exporting DWG, DXF, DWF, FBX file format out of Revit (with solid and wiremesh options).

    Then try to import/open those into SketchUp.

     

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    Re: revit to sketchup

    04-16-2012 09:11 AM in reply to: sabtf7

    How and where exactley do I go to do that that sounds promising?

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    Alfredo_Medina
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    Re: revit to sketchup

    04-16-2012 09:18 AM in reply to: sabtf7

    Big R > Export > CAD Formats.

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    Re: revit to sketchup

    04-16-2012 09:22 AM in reply to: Alfredo_Medina

    yeah i got that part.  From there how do i edit my export to be a solid or wire mesh to help fix the curves so when i export they will come in as solid forms or masses in sketchup?

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    Re: revit to sketchup

    04-16-2012 09:27 AM in reply to: sabtf7

    see attached.

    Cliff B. Collins
    Registered Architect/BIM Manager
    Thalden Boyd Emery Architects
    St. Louis, MO
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