Blender File to Revit

[Luke.Kemel]

Hi,

I have a number of blender files that id like to use in revit. can Import the blender file into a revit family/project?

[Arun.Sarku]

Hi,

The best to exchange something between to distinct Softwares is to use a
common format of exchange.

In this case, Revit has tools to import .SAT, .DWG, .DGN with ease. So you
can export your blender file into one of these formats and then import them
in to Revit. Meanwhile do remember that Revit works on the concept of
Solids and Voids and not Surfaces (like some modelling software). So if the
file being brought into Revit isn't a Solid Mass, it might fail. Also the
on materials, Revit doesn't support individual materials on surfaces.

Alternatively you can try to take your file into Autodesk Fomit using .OBJ
or .STL. Doing so most of the import related errors would be fixed. Further
FormIT and Revit have a connectivity using which you can easily get the
object into Revit as a Mass Family or families.

[panosUSUMX]

You reply is misleading. .sat. dwg. dgn files cannot be exported by Blender as the basic installation allows only the following file types:

.dae, .abc, .3ds, .fbx, .ply, .obj, .x3d, .stl.

None of the files exported by Blender can be used directly by Revit.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that converting the files in either direction (Blender to Revit or Revit to Blender) will cause the loss of important data. We need to develop a plugin or a method by which this can occur without any loss of textures, simplification or corruption of model geometry, or any other impedance to the transfer of data.

The use of Unreal Engine or Unity is also an important consideration in this respect.

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:

The problem is that converting the files in either direction (Blender to Revit or Revit to Blender) will cause the loss of important data. We need to develop a plugin or a method by which this can occur without any loss of textures, simplification or corruption of model geometry, or any other impedance to the transfer of data.

The use of Unreal Engine or Unity is also an important consideration in this respect.

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We?  

[SteveKStafford]

My memory is faint but I recall a friend that's been using Blender for years in his fabrication business using Max (obj) as the interpreter to get to Revit.  Although I think he usually went the other direction, from Revit to Blender to run CNC equipment.

[Anonymous]

Either way, I think that there should be a real universal file format that facilitates all of this by now... We need to work together to do this!

[Anonymous]

We are the ones discussing this. WE should try to work together to develop a plugin or find one that has already been made that will facilitate this function..

[Anonymous]

If you have AutoCAD you can export your file as some of the export types that you mention, Such as FBX.  Then you can save that as DWG or DXF and bring it into Revit.

[dgorsman]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Either way, I think that there should be a real universal file format that facilitates all of this by now... We need to work together to do this!

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XKCD has already covered this.

[Anonymous]

At least I'm not a hypocrite! 

[SteveKStafford]

The only "blender" I've ever used is to make a milkshake 🙂

[3d.studiona · Accepted solution]

The easiest file format to use for this is IFC. 

There is a blender IFC importer which you can find here:

http://ifcopenshell.org/ifcblender

Or a blender BIM plugin which allows for the conversion of blender models to ifc so you can import that data to revit and vice versa:

https://blenderbim.org/