Inventor to Revit: Can't see model faces.

[pcrawley]

I have a problem with getting an Inventor model into Revit.  It's not the import of the model that's the problem, but the way the model displays in Revit.  (It displays fine in AutoCAD, 3ds max etc - just not Revit.)

Here's the part file - it's just a simple box with a couple of split-face features on it to generate a pattern.  

If I take the model into Revit, I can only see the pattern if I select the object.  

Deselect the object and the pattern vanishes.  Here's an unselected/selected screenshot from Revit:

I'm posting this here in case there's a brilliant Inventor user who also has experience with Revit and may have seen this before.  (I'm also posting it on the Revit DG.)

Models attached - Inventor 2014 IPT and a SAT version of the same.

[DarrenP]

what about using the .adsk format?

to go from inventor to revit

[DarrenP]

nevermind its doing the same thing

[pcrawley]

Cheers for trying!  Annoying isn't it.  

This has been bugging be for days.  I'm at the point where I would willingly pay for a solution.

[DarrenP]

its probably some revit setting we are missing

[pcrawley]

I really hope so, but so far the Revit forum is very very quiet.

I have a few friends who are (in my eyes) Revit guru's - but so far they haven't found the elusive setting.

[DarrenP]

i will try to get some other revit gurus to look at also

[DarrenP]

i ran a check revit features report attached

split 1 & 2 are unsupported

[DarrenP]

someone responded on your other thread here:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Revit-Architecture/Model-edge-display-problem/td-p/4350861

[Toth2012]

The BIM exchange worked great for me in Inventor 2013 but in Inventor 2014 it is not working so well.  Please let me know if you find a fix.  You would think with all the extra buttons they added to Inventor 2014 for Revit that it would work better.

[pcrawley]

Find a fix?  For what?

This post was a very specific feature of the BIM exchange that wasn't broken as such - it just didn't do what I expected.  If you have a general question about BIM Exchange, then a new post might be more appropriate.