Can any Revit user convert these files to something useful?

[Matthew.Peterson]

I have a bunch of .rfa files that were provided by a vendor that I need to import for reference into Solidworks. If a revit user could convert these to .iges .stl .stp or something that most and cad system can use I would be eternally grateful.

[L.Maas]

It is not that straightforward. The three formats you name are not on the export list of Revit. Revit is normally not used for creating machine ready parts like inventor or similar. So i do not know if the details in the Revit models will be sufficient for you. For example hereunder a screenshot of one of the Revit models compared to the url it is pointing to (PDF on legrad website) inside the Revit file.

You also can download and install Revit. Without a licnese you can still use it as viewer software.

[Matthew.Peterson]

Thanks for the input, I have never seen revit before. I have the vendor working on getting me some solidworks files, so I'm not too worried. That wasn't however, the complete list of files that solidworks will open though. The image below shows a more expanded list. I think .sat or.ipt may be more revit freindly? I guess if you see something easy on that list, all I need is the reference geometry for my assembly. (Which may mean i just end up drawing them myself) I would install revit, but it's like 5 gigs and I'd probably get in trouble by the internet police here at work.

[L.Maas]

I have done one part for now. Both to sat and dwg. If it work I can do the rest later

The revit file also point to documentation for this part to THIS  url.

[Keith_Wilkinson]

IFC might be worth a punt...

For some reason when I download the zip file it's coming up as corrupt so I can't upload anything for you just now.

[L.Maas]

The files in the zip are Revit families. As far as I know it is not possible to export families to IFC. In that case you would have to insert them first into a project before exporting.

[Keith_Wilkinson]

Would that not be quicker and easier though?  Insert them all into a project, export the whole thing as a single IFC file and then they can be pulled apart as required in Solidworks?  I don't know how Solidworks handles IFC but I would expect to get more useful information using that route than exporting as DXF or DWG...

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

Followed your advise. Pushed the families in a project and exported to IFC.

Hopefully Matthew can do something with these

[Matthew.Peterson]

Thanks!

[Matthew.Peterson]

Thank you so much again for your help. Could I trouble you for one more part?

[L.Maas]

Hereby

[Matthew.Peterson]

Thanks!