@Anonymous
New Revit user question: This might seem trivial, but I noticed that when I open my revit my model does not appear by default, only when I turn on "Show Massing & Floors".
You can assign the default visibilty to any of your Revit views to show Mass elements in the visibility graphics settings.
My question is if I have this preliminary model and want to place it in InfraWorks to contextualize the design, will it even show up, since by default the model does not show up unless I specify to "Show Massing & Floors"?
Infraworks imports Revit files locally, if you have Navisworks installed, or as a cloud based translation depending on the setting in "Application Options | Data Import".
The Navisworks import will, by default, import the geometry based on the first 3d view prefixed with "navis" while the cloud import will use the default "3D" view in the Revit project. By setting the visibility graphics of either of those 3D views to show "mass elements", they will be imported to Infraworks.
There does seem to be a bug with the local Navisworks imported workflow as the first placement will correctly show the 3D geometry when interactively placing the model then disappear. Applying an override color will make it show up but then all material associations are lost and I can't seem to make them update.
When using the Cloud import workflow, the default transparent "Default Mass" materials import correctly and the geometry is immediately visible.
Hope this helps.
-luc
P.S. Image linking didn't seem to work when writing this. I've zipped screen captures of the original revit mass and the import results using both workflows (see attached file).
