topic Re: Revit to FormIt in FormIt Forum

Revit to FormIt

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 22:40:39 GMT

I can't seem to find any good way of bringing Revit back into FormIt. I did the whole OBJ or SketchUp thing, but I was wondering where the option is for just Revit to FormIt? Seems like this should have come with the fact that it goes the other way

Re: Revit to FormIt

vollart — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 01:03:14 GMT

You have two options

You can use our Converter add-in http://formit360.autodesk.com/blog/formit-converter/ to convert individual RFA family files to AXMF files that can be loaded into FormIt (either manually or using the Content Library palette)
You can export to SAT, upload the SAT to A360 and use the iOS version to load it. We do not have SAT import for web...yet.
ok.. there is a third option. You could get a free STL exporter from the Autodesk App Store

hope this helps

Re: Revit to FormIt

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:44:34 GMT

That's the route that I went to. I was more meaning converting RVT files to FormIt 360 files. These aren't families I am trying to import into FormIt, but generic walls. We did the initial form work in Revit because our client was looking for stuff that FormIt wasn't doing super easily just yet, but now we are back at that Design/Feasibility stage so we wanted to take out progress and put it into FormIt from Revit easily.

Re: Revit to FormIt

Tobias_Hathorn — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 19:14:51 GMT

The SAT workflow that Tom mentioned will do what you want with Generic walls and floors from Revit. You can export directly from your RVT to SAT. The BEST way to get this SAT into FormIt is to then upload the SAT to your A360 Drive FormIt folder and open the SAT file in FormIt on your iPad. Then the individual walls and floors can be grouped and put on layers and used as reference geometry.

There is a way to do this without using your iPad - but it involves more steps and you lose the 'separateness' of the walls and floors - so beware, this isn't the best user experience and we are aware of this!).

You can still get the walls and floors to be separate - but it requires extra work on export to hide floors / walls and then make multiple exports and put them back together in FormIt. See this video for that workflow - https://youtu.be/dvdUVs68NJ4?t=23m52s