Mitek Sapphire to Revit

[Anonymous]

Hi;

Our truss company designs our open web trusses in Sapphire - is there a way to bring their truss designs into Revit?

Thx,

Marc

[MichaelBussiere2]

Thank you for your post.  It looks like you are trying to coordinate between the MiTek software and Revit and you are looking to see how to bring the truss designs from one manufacturer to the other.  According to support, the Sapphire program will save layout files to DWG, DXF, ETP, IFC, MXF, PDF, and TBK. By default the files are .MMDL.  With that said I would advise to test either DWG or IFC to then bring into Revit.  I would advise testing both third party translations to see what may work best.  For additional reference I have include the link to Sapphire support (Mitek) below.

Support Contact:  http://www.mitek-us.com/resources/Product-Support/

[jasonEES8F]

Mitek Offers a revit plug-in to export to MXF.  However does not seem to have an MXF "Import" option.  It would be very handy to be able to import the trusses.  With the DWG / DXF export from saphire, we need to create Blocks in AutoCAD, then import to revit, and explode.  Not very user friendly for larger projects.

[Anonymous]

Using the dwg format you should be able to bring into a generic family and have yourself a truss family.

[jmhanbyV4TDM]

Can this be done with just the viewer?  I can't find any way to export to .dwg.