Curved objects in formit to revit

[Anonymous]

Curved faces in formit , which is imported into Revit is heavily tessellated. For example, if I want to apply curtain system by face on a cylindrical shape, there are lots of faces on a cylinder. If I create the same cylindrical shape using in place mass feature in Revit, its clean & easy.

How do I import clean curved models from formit into Revit?

[Anonymous]

Sorry if the question is too basic. but I'm stuck with my workflow. all curved faces are tessellated when imported into revit. not able to proceed with curtain system design.  also any twist to my conceptual mass ( eg : rotating top face of a 50' high curved / square mass), also results in heavy tessellation of the object.

[Tobias_Hathorn]

Hello - you are correct that any curved / smoothed surface from FormIt will become faceted / unsmooth on import to Revit. This is an accurate representation of the geometry - it is segmented in FormIt too, and there is no 'workaround' for this unfortunately.

I have seen some very neat workflows with Dynamo scripts that create geometry in FormIt - and are then used again in Revit to create Revit objects systematically (from the Dynamo script) - You might explore this option.

I'm sorry for the limitation in your workflow!

Tobias

[mario_howayek]

I was thrilled to find such an easy 3d drafting tool that could seamlessly merge into Revit which makes big advantage and saved me a lot of time, but today I found out about this problem with dynamic shaped sweeps that are divided and this seems so annoying, it is really a big downside for the software and a threat to the fact of being totally seamless with revit . So hope you could work on it in a way for the next versions to be able to really compete with the established market of rhinoceros and sketchup .

[josh.goldstein · Accepted solution]

Hi everyone,

We released a new FormIt Add-In for Revit 2021.1 that addresses this issue. Read about it here.

Enjoy!

[Heritage_Architecture]

Issue with curved imported Formit objects not generating silhouettes in Revit even after installing the new Formit converter into Revit 2021.1.

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[EwanR]

This new formit to revit convertor 2021.1 fails to even import a box, any ideas why, had to uninstall and go back to version before

[josh.goldstein]

Hi @EwanR,

Can you describe how it fails? Any errors, or you're just not seeing anything in Revit?

If you don't see any geometry, be sure to enable the Mass category in the Visibility/Graphic Override dialog in Revit (shortcut VV or VG), otherwise FormIt objects categorized as Mass won't display.