Send Revit Mass to Forma

[cdixon-beck]

Is it possible to send a Revit Mass to Forma and have it imported as a Basic building? In Revit, these Masses may represent programs and or a building type. When I've tried the Mass category does not load into Forma when using the Update Proposal option.

I am able to load them into Forma using the import as .obj option and then I can go through the process of manually converting them FWIW.

[walter.ryu]

I also have a same question;

1. it does not seem to possibly to import Revit model into Forma. I would like to know if there is a way.

2. all trees and building mass are always ground associated not being able to help any upper level use wise.

[cdixon-beck]

@walter.ryu what from your Revit model are you trying to get into Forma? I have been able to get portions of my Revit model into Forma using the Forma Addin. Alternatively, I can import a .obj file but still has its understandable limitations. I don't think I've experienced the Level issue you are describing but I will check that out.

I have just not been able to get Revit Masses to work at this point.

[walter.ryu]

Hi thanks for your reply.
I would like to send the massing to Forma and generate graphic in Forma not in revit.

[smilksh · Accepted solution]

@cdixon-beck - Thank you for your question.

Currently masses cannot be sent to Forma as Basic Buildings, but they should be getting sent to Forma as generic volumes (meshes).

If your masses are not being sent at all I would encourage you to reach out through the in-product support so we can get more information about your use case.

Thanks,

-Heather from Forma

[smilksh]

@walter.ryu - Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

Starting with your second issue, you are correct.  At this time, vegetation can only be drawn on the terrain and not on buildings.

Going back to the first issue, I am wondering if you are trying to send to Forma without sending a Forma project into Revit first?  We do not currently support a workflow that starts a Forma project from Revit, you must already have the Forma project.

Here's some help documentation that might assist you:

https://help.autodeskforma.com/en/articles/6984724-revit-interoperability

If you continue to have problems sending your Revit content to Forma via the Add-in I would encourage you to contact us through the in-product support so we can learn more about your use case.

Thanks,

-Heather from Forma