topic Re: Exporting from robot to revit in Robot Structural Analysis Forum

Exporting from robot to revit

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:01:33 GMT

Hi all

i have seen so many tutorials about exporting and importing between those two programs .

but i have a different question

are we able to send our robot model to Revit Directly ? >>>

any help . thanks in advance

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

Romanich — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:17:14 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Yes, it is possible to send model from Robot to Revit. I would recommend to use .smxx file instead of direct integration.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

Artur.Kosakowski — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 11:11:17 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

You may want to watch the recording of the Robot webinar on this topic:

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 08:58:34 GMT

Hvor kan jeg finde min ROBOT?? for kan ikke finde den i min revit.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 06:42:28 GMT

Robot Structural Analysis och Revit är två olika mjukvaror.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

severin.wolff — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 09:13:49 GMT

If I try this way, it is not working.

I tried many ways to export the model from robot to revit.

I already asked this in another case in this community and I was told to do some updates. Now I'm working with the new versions Revit 2022 and Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2022 and still it's still not working.

Do you have other ideas what the problem could be?

PS: Important point is, that the other way around is working.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

okapawal — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:15:03 GMT

@severin.wolff

I'm not sure what do you mean "that the other way around is working."

If you have Revit and Robot installed side-by-side on your system, then you can use Direct integration.

If you want to use intermediate file (smxx), then you simply save model to a file in a chosen location. You can copy it to another machine. Then Update model from the smxx file, opening it from Integration dialog.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

severin.wolff — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:25:55 GMT

I would like to create the model at first in robot structural analysis because it is easier for me to define true connections on the nodal points. And after that I would like to import it into Revit or rather send it from Robot to Revit.

I tried different ways and posibillities, but none of them worked --> Revit won't import that model which was created first with robot. The error which is given tells me: "Unbekannter Fehler des Programms", which means 'unknown error of the program'.

The other way around(creating the model in revit and sending to robot) works, but isn't the right way for our needs.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

okapawal — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:38:30 GMT

Share RTD file for verification, if you can. Zip it before attachement.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

severin.wolff — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 05:17:59 GMT

I quickly created the model you can find in the attachement. I started with Robot2022. I tried the direct integration and the possibility by the smxx-Exchange-Data. It still did not work to export the model to Revit2022.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

okapawal — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:00:04 GMT

Well, it works on my machine.

Maybe you do something different?

Watch the video

https://autode.sk/3xYsamu

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

severin.wolff — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:03:49 GMT

Thank you very much for your informativ video!

No, I think we are doing it the same way.

Now I opened the new project in Revit without any template, just to test it, and it worked.

That's fine, but I would really like to open it up with a template(BIM Architektur und Ingenieurbau) shown in the following image:

After this new cognition, that the problem is slumbering in the template of the Revit-project, you may have an idea what solutions we have?

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

okapawal — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:20:47 GMT

Please share the template. I was able to transfer to Metric-Architectural Template.
Do you have Structure tab visible in the ribbon?

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

severin.wolff — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:50:43 GMT

Please see the standard-template, I'd like to work with, in the attachment.

Yes the structure tab is visible in the options if you mean the ribbon like it's shown in the following screenshot:

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

okapawal — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:39:44 GMT

Yes, I can reproduce the issue on this template.

I will ask development team for checking.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

severin.wolff — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 05:43:30 GMT

Thank you very much!

As an additional information I'd like to add, that the template I sent yesterday is the standard template by revit in Germany. Maybe this template has to be revised in generally for all users.

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

severin.wolff — Mon, 09 May 2022 10:20:04 GMT

Does the Development have an idea or a quick Solution to solve this problem?
Is this Problem a General Problem?

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

okapawal — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:47:06 GMT

This issue has been corrected with
Update to the link Robot Structural Analysis - Revit 2023.1

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

ambrosemcc — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:32:16 GMT

Hi,

I have tried the Robot 'direct integration' to Revit, both with Revit 'structural template' and with <none> template, as recommended by commenter above. In either case, I can only get an analytical or 'wireframe' model in Revit. The sections are labelled in properties, with UB/PFC, etc. but there does not seem to be a way to apply the member properties to the wireframe?

Like the above commenter, I develop models in Robot for analysis, and have a third party draftsman developing 3D drawings thereafter on Revit. It seems odd that Revit to Robot works, but not Robot to Revit. any help appreciated.

Ambrose

Re: Exporting from robot to revit

Romanich — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:37:51 GMT

Hi @ambrosemcc ,

Please check this post:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis-forum/export-reinforcing-bars-from-robot-2023-to-revit-2023/m-p/11465618#M93147