Export Solidworks assembly file to .SAT and import into Revit

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone

I'm facing some problems when trying to import from Solidwoks to Revit. The situation is as follows:

I have a Solidworks assembly file of a mechanical equipment that i want to export into a Revit family.

Firstly I saved the ASSEMBLY file onto a new PART file.

Then I exported the assembly into ACIS using the .SAT version 7. To do so, I used tools/export to AEC.

After the defeaturing I saved the ACIS file.

I then imported this ACIS with Revit but all I see is some parts only of the geometry. And the elements are now binded into a single object.

Does anyone knows if there is a procedure or some setting to do in order to have the whole geometry imported and leave the elements indipendent separated?

I'm using:

Solidworks 2018

Revit 2018

THANK YOU

[L.Maas]

Not sure why some items are sometimes not visible. This might be element is too complex for Revit. Revit has limitations in, for example line lengths. Also small angles or small radii are not well translated.

You could experiment and see what happens if you go through Autocad first (import sat, export dwg) and then to Revit.

In general I would (re)model the object in native Revit, if possible in simplified form. This will give better performance in a Revit project and you allow you to make the object parametric where needed.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I tried to export to Autocad and all the elements are separated 3d solids.

I opened the autocad file with revit and I can see every element now but they are just one solid piece.

Isn't there any way to import manageable parts in revit (for example suitable for parametric objects of a family) without having to model the machine from scratch?

Thank you

[L.Maas]

No as I mentioned. You will have to export the individual parts and import those parts to be able to treat them as separate objects

[pkolarik]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I tried to export to Autocad and all the elements are separated 3d solids.

I opened the autocad file with revit and I can see every element now but they are just one solid piece.

Isn't there any way to import manageable parts in revit (for example suitable for parametric objects of a family) without having to model the machine from scratch?

Thank you

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Whenever I get an .sat file from Solidworks I run it through Inventor to create an .adsk file (I've had no luck getting Inventor to successfully create .rfa files from .sat files), then I bring that into Revit.

Sometimes in Inventor I can use the "simplify" procedure to take out some of the millions of nuts and bolts from pieces of equipment, etc., but most times that doesn't work well enough so I just import the equipment as-is.

As for getting it to remain as separate model pieces in Revit;  I've never gotten that to happen (never really tried either). However, sometimes the file is still in separate pieces while still in Inventor (but not very often, unfortunately), at which time I am able to delete parts I don't want in Revit, etc. Someone familiar with Solidworks recently told me that there's something they can do on their end to make it so it's still individual pieces in Inventor, but I have no idea what that is (and haven't received an .sat file from this person since then).