What 3d object(s) imported into Revit comes in with materials already attached....? ready to go..

[ccastelein]

What 3d object(s) imported into Revit comes in with materials already attached....? ready to go..

besides native revit files.....rfa

if the answer is "nothing" but .rfa's

where is the largest revit family site with free content?

and if that is the case, really?!, is that a good thing? islolated... cant say i would want to model in revit with limited content..

[broderickwhitlock]

As in full rendering properties, thermal, etc?  I could be wrong, but because materials are project specific it would be tough to keep that consistent.  Unless the .rfa came with a materials file that you would have to load into each project. I like the thought! Will be interested in what the community has to input!

[syman2000]

You can check out these website. A lot of their content came from manufacturer which already apply material to the model.

https://bimsmith.com/

https://www.bimobject.com/

https://www.bimstore.co/

[ccastelein]

yes, have been to all three of those websites and a few more... all very limited content...

i want to be able to import entourage objects with materials already applied and ready to go... 

stools, coffee tables, light fixtures, pizza boxes, plates, candles, mirrors, etc... what comes with revit, way too simplistic. Take sketchups warehouse, 100's of thousands of objects already painted with materials...ready to go..

find it sad that autodesk/revit cant make all that content easily importable...

anything i do import currently, i will have to mess around and apply materials, very time consuming. waste of time.

if Revit cant seem to "open up" their process, i guess i will have to export revit to some other platform that has more support than they do.

[syman2000]

Enscape has that feature which allows you to import OBJ or FBX with material attached. So you can go that route if you into real time rendering with Revit. Majority of users aren't using Revit to do rendering. Majority of them are using content for clashing, real world sizing and coordination. So it is why most engineers don't do rendering as much as Architects.

[lucdoucet_msdl]

@ccastelein 

I think you may be confusing Revit material families with the way other software packages assign render materials to their geometry. Most of Revits native import formats only import the geometry while plugins are required to "convert" other 3D formats materials to Revit material families.

One Autodesk workflow which may open your source of material mapped models is to pre-process your files in FormIt, which is compatible with the following render material friendly formats: FBX, OBJ, SKP and DAE.

Here is a summary of the steps:

1. Open the source file in FormIt;

2. Check the file for problems such and incorrectly mapped materials, water-tightness, visible edges or other hidden geometry.

3. Assign the geometry to one of the Revit family categories compatible with FormIt (site, furniture, mass, equipement, etc);

4. Save the FormIt AXM file;

5. In Revit, using the FormIt plugin, import the geometry and materials. New Revit materials are created with the material assets from the FormIt file and path assignements.

Here's some links to help you out:
Using FormIt to get SketchUp data into Revit
1.11 - Import Models with Content Library - with example of Barcelona pavillon ottoman seating

Good luck,

-luc

[ccastelein]

@syman2000 even tho enscape has that capability it is very cumbersome and has limitations.. and i would only do that if i knew i would use it every time i use enscape...

@lucdoucet_msdl that information sounds intriguing and will look into it. thank you, because there has to be a better way... 

[lucdoucet_msdl]

@ccastelein 

No problem.

But if it was too easy, image how messy your model becomes and having to clean up all those used pizza boxes and other entourage elements laying around the next day after an all-nighter! 😉

-luc

[su-design]

Hello, i was trying to reuse a few decorative 3ds objects to a Revit model, to render an interior view, and faced identical problems with .obj files. I understand that very few decorative objects can be found for Revit, even more free, as this is not his prupose, but i'd like avoiding export a Revit model to another program just to then render it. First problem, 3ds files are not compatible. So, i imported an .obj file in Revit to try, but it cames as a whole single object, without layers or materials assigned separatelly. Then I imported the 3ds to autocad (don't have 3d Max anymore), assigned layers and materials, then imported it in Revit, but the problem is the tessellation, i can't get that smooth look that .obj gives. Tryed also make the same process in FormIt as suggested, opened the .obj file to assign layers and materials (easy and fast process indeed), but it also looses the smoothness, giving that triangulated look, and the file is 10x the cad file. I use this example, but it apllies to all the .obj mesh objects, i presume. Can someone more experienced say if there's a way to smooth tessellation in those imported objects?
Thanks in advance.