Improve Revit to 3ds Max Interoperability - Lighting

[Anonymous]

The Revit to 3ds Max workflow has a few broken parts, mostly related to lighting.

• The scale of lights is often wrong, they have to be rescaled manually in 3ds Max
• Lights are always rotate 90 degrees, they must be rotated manually and individually
• Lights are all off by default, they must be turned on manually

Please just fix the scaling and lighting issues. These things have to be fixed manually every-time the model is updated and it eats up precious time. You're so close to interoperability, but somehow this has been broken (and not detected?) for the last 5+ years.

Once I have this, I will be able to do renderings with all my electrical lights, a lot more seamlessly (using Octane plugin from 3ds Max)

Link to Revit idea:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/improve-revit-to-3ds-max-interoperability-lighting/idc-p/...

[brentscannell]

Hi @Anonymous, We are actually doing some investigations regarding the scaling issues right now. Would you be able to provide or generate some sample revit files for us to test with? Our devs are not always familiar with Revit, so if you could help us with a "here is a revit file, it has a family of this type with these parameters, I expect these to be the same when I import it into max.", it would be a dream come true for them! I can set up a common drop box type location if you're interested.

Same story with the 90 degrees, I can't say I've seen a lot of this happening but I'm willing to get the devs investigating! More of a bug than an idea but I'm happy to hear about it all the same 🙂

For the lights on/off, what do you think about a switch on the import dialog to force all lights on?

[Anonymous]

Hi @brentscannell, there's nothing I'd like to do more than help you fix the lights from Revit in 3ds Max. I'm a huge revit and lighting nerd, so this has been driving me insane for the last 5+ years.

I will DM you my email.

Regards,

Sam