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If the 20+ year old Revit platform will not be rebuilt from scratch in the next few months it's absolutely a necessity to make importing of FBX files into Revit an option. Customers demands for more realistic 3D objects like furniture's increases from project to project and we have to admit the 3D family editor modelling toolset and workflow in Revit is langsyne outdated compared to other 3D/BIM software's on the market today (yes, even the unnecessarily complex Conceptual Massing tools are old school despite it's advantages over the basic Family Editor). It's really frustrating to have limitations like these in the (still) most widely used BIM software worldwide in the 21st century. I think if Revit had the capability of importing FBX or even OBJ files into Revit projects and families, architectural firms would not even be considering a switch to other BIM software's like I read in every other BIM related articles today. You can easily create any complex 3D forms and export them to FBX/OBJ in software's like 3ds MAX, Rhino and the magnificent free open source software Blender to name a few and if you could then import those complex shapes into Revit with PBR materials and textures Revit would gain it's former strength and be again the leading BIM software worldwide as it was 10-20 years ago. Blender > Revit > Enscape/Twinmotion is a combination that can do it all. Please Autodesk, put more effort into the A of AEC.
Definitely want/need ability to Import > Linked InfraWorks Model, especially since Revit has abandoned the Site Designer tools, or the ability to import LandXML files unless they are published from Civil3D through BIM 360 (or whatever they call it now).
Buildings are built on sites. The lack of any useful toolset in Revit is glaring and inexcusable. Civil 3D is a monstrously complicated program and many architects don't have civil engineers on board before the building is already being designed. If we are blessed to have a survey and the CE's provide a toposurface, great, but that usually doesn't extend past the property line and so we have no model of the adjacent context.
Open FormIt Pro (not being developed further, but still works) and import FBX file. Save as a native AXM file.
In Revit, Link CAD and change file type from DWG to AXM. Select file and IW model is now in Revit.
Use linked IW site as source for toposurface/toposolid
This workaround is possible, but way more complicated than it should be. I would much prefer the ability to link in InfraWorks models directly into Revit.
I hope this helps someone. The struggle is real and I don't have much hope that it will ever come to be - especially as Autodesk moves towards Forma Site Design and Forma Building Design.
