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BIM Export ignoring insertion point

christopher.pepin — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:18:18 GMT

I am trying to export out an RFA for an assembly I made and I would like the placement point in Revit to be the center of the assembly. I have gone through the Author Building Components panel and set the insertion point where I want it as discussed here but when I load the family up in Revit it places it using the assemblies origin, which is not what I want to use for placement. I have also tried redefining the UCS to being located at the center but I get the same results

Re: BIM Export ignoring insertion point

3D4Play — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:12:28 GMT

This does sound like expected behavior for Revit. In order for the insertion point to be the center of the assembly, you have to build the assembly around the Inventor origin point. I know that the authoring process makes you think you're setting a different insertion point, but either a) you're not, or b) Revit ignores it. I'm pretty sure Revit imports external non-native solids using the solid's origin. Now...if I'm wrong about that, then someone else with powerful foo will describe exactly how to do what both you and I want to do. 😉

Re: BIM Export ignoring insertion point

christopher.pepin — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:06:39 GMT

@3D4Play wrote:
In order for the insertion point to be the center of the assembly, you have to build the assembly around the Inventor origin point.

In the forum post I linked to the poster was able to get it to accept a different insertion point so at one point it clearly was possible. Unless you have a really good reason to believe otherwise it seems like this isn't just a case of wanting to do something Inventor/Revit is not capable of handling. After some troubleshooting, it appears that the exact same process I used does work in Inventor 2022 but not in Inventor 2023 so I really don't think this is a case of me being too stupid to realize what that button is for.