Autocad 3D solids to Revit Family

[archlatham]

I have a .dwg file of a chair made frpm 3D solids from a manufacturer thaI want to use in my Revit model. When I import it into a Revit family, it comes in as a single entity that can not have different materials assigned to the different parts of the chair. 

WIth some investigation, it seems that I can possilby use Inventor, loading the .dwg file into Inventor and then export as a .adsk flie and then import the .adsk file into a Revit family.  I do not have Inventor but read something about Inventor Fusion being a part of my Autocad.  I have the Building Design Suite on subscription but can not find the Inventor Fusion in my Autocad program. ( I could not find anything about being able to export .adsk files from the Fusion program.)

I would appreciate any feedback on this before I try to download Inventor or if there is a simpler way of doing this,

Thanks

[Chris.Aquino · Accepted solution]

You should be able to control the materials if the parts of the chair are on different layers.

Go to Manage > Object Styles > Imported Objects. From here you can assign materials to the different layers.

[archlatham]

Thank you, that is what I needed.

[narlee]

Chris,

I had a chair in 3ds, which I ungrouped the parts, made it into an editable mesh (maybe I shouldn't have), exported to .dwg, assigned the parts to layers, tried to convert them to solids (failed because meshes "didn't close and/or intersected").

TOTALLY FRUSTRATED, to be nice about it, that ADesk hasn't figured out a way to get good objects into Revit.