Bringing Revit into Inventor model

[mgreey]

Hi,

We are an electrical manufacturer who uses Inventor 2017 to do all our models and drawings. Generally if our customers have pre existing models they would have been created in Revit. I am wondering if there is a way for them to send the Revit models so I can open it in Inventor, best case would be to have it as a part or something where I can modify my model with it grounded in there.

Please let me know if you have any options.

[mgreey]

Hi,

We are an electrical manufacturer who uses Inventor 2017 to do all our models and drawings. Generally if our customers have pre existing models they would have been created in Revit. I am wondering if there is a way for them to send the Revit models so I can open it in Inventor, best case would be to have it as a part or something where I can modify my model with it grounded in there.

Please let me know if you have any options.

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

@mgreey

Inventor can only open Revit Project (.rvt) files.   If you do a normal Inventor Open and change the file type you will see the Revit Options or start a part and pick import..

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

@mgreey

Inventor can only open Revit Project (.rvt) files.   If you do a normal Inventor Open and change the file type you will see the Revit Options or start a part and pick import..

[Anonymous]

"Failed to open document.

Autodesk Revit interoperability needs to be installed in order to open Revit file."

[Anonymous]

"Failed to open document.

Autodesk Revit interoperability needs to be installed in order to open Revit file."

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Bill,

Are you on Inventor LT 2019? If yes, Revit Interop Add-In is not installed by default. You will need to pull down Inventor Pro 2019 trial and install Pro 2019 to get Revit Interop. After that, you can uninstall Inventor Pro 2019 and Revit Interop will still stay.

Many thanks!

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Bill,

Are you on Inventor LT 2019? If yes, Revit Interop Add-In is not installed by default. You will need to pull down Inventor Pro 2019 trial and install Pro 2019 to get Revit Interop. After that, you can uninstall Inventor Pro 2019 and Revit Interop will still stay.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

Using Inventor from Autodesk Product Design Suite Premium 2016. The
installation is whatever corporate IT "pushes out" to the users. It's
possible a box wasn't checked or something.

It's a moot point now. I got tired of fiddling with it and just modeled
what I needed from scratch. Just a shame that there's this great divide
between architectural and mechanical CAD. Heaven forbid you try to model
an office layout in Inventor.

Thanks for the help, though. I appreciate it.

Bill

[Anonymous]

Using Inventor from Autodesk Product Design Suite Premium 2016. The
installation is whatever corporate IT "pushes out" to the users. It's
possible a box wasn't checked or something.

It's a moot point now. I got tired of fiddling with it and just modeled
what I needed from scratch. Just a shame that there's this great divide
between architectural and mechanical CAD. Heaven forbid you try to model
an office layout in Inventor.

Thanks for the help, though. I appreciate it.

Bill

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Bill,

You are very welcome! I do agree that there is room for improvement in terms of how Inventor works with Revit. We are looking into it but the enhancements will not be in current releases.

I still think the issue you are having is due to missing Revit Interop Add-In. You do need it to import and export to Revit from Inventor.

Many thanks!

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Bill,

You are very welcome! I do agree that there is room for improvement in terms of how Inventor works with Revit. We are looking into it but the enhancements will not be in current releases.

I still think the issue you are having is due to missing Revit Interop Add-In. You do need it to import and export to Revit from Inventor.

Many thanks!

[WHolzwarth]

Johnson, there's a general issue, not obvious for many users:

Inventor 20xx can't read any RVT files from 20xx+n (n=1,2,3..).

I just tried it here, and all seems to be well with loading. But when the Insert View window appears, it's just empty. No message about an existing version conflict. But users mostly don't know about the Revit version, in which the file has been saved.

[WHolzwarth]

Johnson, there's a general issue, not obvious for many users:

Inventor 20xx can't read any RVT files from 20xx+n (n=1,2,3..).

I just tried it here, and all seems to be well with loading. But when the Insert View window appears, it's just empty. No message about an existing version conflict. But users mostly don't know about the Revit version, in which the file has been saved.