I tried to make some exterior wall lights in Inventor to bring into Revit and ran into a few pitfalls. Wondering if anybody has a good way to do this. See picture attached. The problem is when I try to create a material parameter for the light body in Revit. When I tried to do a partial explode in Revit it deletes some of the complex geometry. This happens whether the light is a dwg I export from inventor or an .rfa I export with the BIM exporter. My workaround was to change Revit's generic material to the color I wanted the light to be but then I had to change so much other stuff in the model it was very time consuming. I would like to figure this process out because I'd rather model things like this in Inventor.
it's not that difficult of a family to model in Revit. Probably faster than authoring and posting this thread, Just saying.
FYI: One model element is shown above - created via the Revolve Tool in literally seconds. Think what you could create in minutes.
Hi @skyeg321
That usually happens (explode with unsatisfying results) because you have segments with lengts below 0.8 which are unsupported in Revit. It doesn't matter the format you export .sat/dwg/.step..results will be the same.
1. So I would try to make sure this rule is not violated by adjusting geometry in Inventor.
2. Try as much as possible to create everything in Revit
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