Revit -> Fabrication Drawings

[jwrampe]

Can anyone comment on Revit's capabilities for exporting to a file format for generating piping isometrics?  Typical export would be a PCF file.

I have seen nothing like this for the Revit platform, but I haven't used the program much.  My company is evaluating as a process piping tool.

Thanks!

[embolisim]

The short answer is no.

What information are you trying to obtain from revit? & whay do you weant to do with it in the other software?

A true 3D isometric view can be fairly easily achieved inside revit, infact you can annotate it without the need to export it to another software. The problem is that you get exactly what was moddled, which is sometimes too much detail, even in single line view.

What software do you read the PCF file with, there may be an intermediate format that you can export to & import from.

[jwrampe]

Apologies...I should have been more clear.  🙂  The PCF stands for "piping component file" which is typically a platform agnostic file that can be imported into Isogen for fabrication drawings.  An isometric view is nice, but not quite the same.

I work in the industrial piping (plant) industry, where contractors use Isogen to create fabrication drawings that document every inch of a pipeline (designated by line numbers, which I think you've commented on before, ebolisim).  Many times these piping contractors use CAD programs to do their detailing:  AutoPlant, SmartPlant, PDS, Plant3D, CadWorx, etc.

We are evaluating whether Revit fits our business model or will effectively preclude us from heavy modeling work in this industry.

You've confirmed what I understood about Revit MEP.  Thank you!

[Anonymous]

sorry, I'd like to generate a pcf file from Revit (for Dalton). But by the Dalton's plugin I can  export only a csv format, may you advice me a right way in order to obtain a pcf or json file?

thanks

[jacquespcharlebois]

I've been trying to do so for over a month without success. If anyone got the solution REAL and TESTED,please post