Moving Rhino v7 mass into Revit 2022 and divide surface to make triangular curtain system

[n10199551]

I'm struggling to solve the issue of importing a Rhino v7 mass into Revit 2022 and be able to divide the surface after importing the cad through a family in-place mass. I have previously read in another post that linking the cad model once in a generic model family would solve this issue, however, I don't have the option to link cad only to import. I wonder whether this is no longer possible in Revit 2022? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have been trying to separate the surface to create a triangular curtain system for quite a while in both Rhino and Revit.

[syman2000]

Have you checkout the Rhino inside Revit? You can directly link Rhino and map it as Revit component. That way you no longer need to do CAD conversion and recreate them in Revit using massing.

https://www.rhino3d.com/inside/revit/beta/

[RDAOU]

@n10199551 

You can link a CAD if you bring it in to a model in place component (ie: in project environment) in family editor / conceptual massing it is not possible. Regardless, that will not fix the issue, that only makes it cuttable. To divide surface you need an actual Surface (either a face of a Mass or a Directshape) meaning you need to convert that Rhino either using grasshopper or dynamo...a couple of nodes can convert an Obj or SAT to a Revit compatible directshape 

Check Archi-labs blog it should put you on the right track ...https://archi-lab.net/direct-shape-a-few-words-about-the-magical-geometry-object/

[ToanDN]

Another (old) way:

- Export Rhino to DWG (Solid)

- Create an in-place mass in Revit Project

- Link the DWG in the in-place mass and divided surface to create a curtain system or a pattern based system

[Lippyy]

Hi! Thank you for your response. I want to further explore this workflow but could you elaborate more? Some context, currently right now my workflow is linking rhino files into the "project environment" as an in-place mass and then that lets me divide the surface. However, I would like to be able to do that in the "conceptual mass environment" but it's not possible. The reason why I want to work in the "conceptual mass environment" is because dynamo does not work with divided surfaces as an "in-place mass". So anytime I make a parametric facade using divided surfaces, (depending on the complexity) I painstakingly have to remake the geometry in the "conceptual mass environment"