topic Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT in Revit Architecture Forum

AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 01:51:34 GMT

Hello,

I have been trying to link the autocad file to Revit and I have checked all the necessary steps but its showing in 3D view only. It doesn't appear in any other views. Please suggest something.

Thanks,

Prattusha.

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

ennujozlagam — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 02:14:55 GMT

hello, if youre going to link cad into revit you must consider current view only, positioning and place at. if you cannot see your link cad you have to go to visibility graphics > tick imported categories.

And go to your autocad drawing move insertion points to 0,0 before linking to autocad. thanks

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

ToanDN — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 02:29:33 GMT

Try relink it Center to Center. If you want the CAD file to be 2D only, meaning only appear in the View you link it in, then check the box Visible in current View only.

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:21:07 GMT

Hello @Anonymous

Click the box on Imported Categories to show all the imported categories in the particular view.

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Viveka_CD — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 02:13:04 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Check "Show crop region" and "Crop view", the CAD file may be outside the crop region.

It could also be due to the fact that the import object has been drawn at a large distance from its origin
Revit places the import’s world origin at the Revit project’s internal origin. This may cause the link to display at a large distance from the model. To test this, set the zoom to Zoom View to Fit.
Auto - Origin to Origin is the default positioning when you insert a Revit model or CAD file. As suggested by @ToanDN try center to center.

Note: If you change the default, the option you select for Positioning becomes the default for the current Revit session. The software remembers one default option for Revit models and another default option for CAD files.

Also, can you send us a screenshot of your view range settings?

Regards,

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Karol_Piroska — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 06:21:08 GMT

one more note based on experience. Sometimes Revit does not set correct units of the linked cad file and this will end up being tiny, hidden under modeled elements. So another solution is center to center, current view only and set units manually.

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Viveka_CD — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:54:07 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

I just wanted to follow up here, any progress on this issue?

Please mark any posts that help with "Accept as Solution" and thanks!

Regards,

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Sahay_R — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:16:48 GMT

Also - check VG or View Template, as the case may be.

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:31:27 GMT

Thank you all for your comments. I tried everything really...but nothing worked. May be the autoCAD file has some issues, may be the XREF's or some constraint. I will have to go back and check the Auto CAD file. But thank you all.

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

ToanDN — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:39:02 GMT

Share the files.

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

ennujozlagam — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 05:39:14 GMT

@Anonymous hello, it could be your autocad has issues. try to audit, purge, overkill, clean as much posiible. if there are xref's attched try to bind and try to link again using manual base point and see if helps. thanks

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Viveka_CD — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:48:02 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

I just wanted to follow up here, any progress on this issue? Were you able to test the AutoCAD file?

HERE is an interesting article on how to optimize your dwg file.

Let us know if you need more assistance from the community. As mentioned before we will be happy to test your file. Let us know if you can share the file - I can send you a private folder if you'd like.

If you find posts have solved your problem, please click on 'Accept as solution' to help others with similar questions.

Kudos welcome!

Regards,

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:36:57 GMT

Hello All,

It took me a while to come back to this post. My apologies. I checked that the files were done in sketchup and then the file assigned as .3ds. When I converted into AutoCAD, I have lost all the properties of it. Is it possible to import 3ds file in REVIT.

For this particular file, I went to Mangae->Object style->Imported Objects but then there is no layer or anything attached to it.

Please see the screengrab for it.

Please find the 3ds file and the autocad file attached here.

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Corsten.Au — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 05:45:33 GMT

Hi..

Try to give some material to 3ds file else its tough to get them showing on plan, elevation etc..

I have attached revit and cad file fixing the issue you faced..

Cheers!

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 06:10:55 GMT

Hello Ganesh,

The file was done in sketchup and was saved as 3ds. They have specified the materials in the sketchup file. I was able to open the file in REVIT but the characteristics were missing.

I tried to open the sketchup file but it's showing error.

Thanks,

Prattusha.

Re: AutoCAD file not showing up in REVIT

ToanDN — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:40:48 GMT

Materials assigned in a SketchUp file won't come in Revit. Use layers to separate different materials then use Object styles - Imported Objects to assign materials in Revit.