topic Re: Import Formit to Revit in FormIt Forum

Import Formit to Revit

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:57:54 GMT

I have a relatively complicated solid in FormIt which I have checked and appears to be watertight, but when I try and import it into Revit 2018 it crashes Revit. Any idea why this is?

Re: Import Formit to Revit

josh.goldstein — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:06:12 GMT

Hi Lydia,

Hard to say for sure, but we've made significant improvements to reliability in later versions of the FormIt Add-In for Revit. We recommend upgrading to Revit 2020 or newer, and after doing that, it's also worth downloading the latest Add-In from our website.

We stopped supporting any version of Revit older than 2020 due to a major change to materials in FormIt 2021 that improves performance and decreases file size, but breaks the ability to get FormIt materials transferred correctly when converting a FormIt 2021 file to an unsupported version of Revit. If you're able to upgrade to Revit 2020, or 2021, it's highly recommended. After that, if you still have problems with this file, let us know, and we'll take a look.

Re: Import Formit to Revit

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:23:42 GMT

I have tried to import it into Revit 2020 and it is still crashing Revit. I have checked and double checked the FormIt model, and when I validated it there is 1 error, but there is no way of finding out where that error is.

Re: Import Formit to Revit

josh.goldstein — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:32:56 GMT

Ok, sorry about that. I'll reach out privately so we can get the model from you and investigate further.