In-place mass shell from REVIT to ROBOT

[dominik.kuna]

Hi!

I'm experiencing a problem exporting a rather complicated form which resembles Sydney Opera House. I created it in Revit with In-place masses which means that it lacks analytical representation in Revit. When I had forms ready I used generic wall to represent thickness.

I've tried exporting from Revit as a SAT file and opening it in ROBOT and it actually worked - the problem is that these panels consist of a number of "sides" (see attached pic.) and I can't assign thickness and material to these panels.

Has anyone any idea how to fix this?

Using Revit 2020 and Robot 2019.

 

[Rafacascudo]

Can you send the exported Robot file??

Zip before attaching

[dominik.kuna]

Hi, 

I'm sending two files - one of the structure in Robot and the other from Revit. Maybe there's a way to amend the model in Revit before exporting it.

[Rafacascudo]

What you get in Robot with the Revit exported .sat file are faces so you can create a solid slab. I was not able to delete some faces and keep just one(superior)

Some years ago with the same problem ,I was able to transform a curved mass into a grid of bars. I tried to do that , But couldn´t find how. Maybe you know how to do it . Then with a bar grid , export it as a dxf  , open in Robot and it will be easy to create a panel based on these bars.

What I also tried was to export the Revit model as a dxf file. Opened it in autocad and then I was able to delete the faces. I kept just the superior face and then exploded it. Opened on robot transforming it into bars and it appeared with the autocad mesh.

There were many overlapping bars probably due to imprecise geometry. So I deleted these overlapping bars and rebuilt the contour with bars.

Segments from the original autocad mesh goes from 2cm to 68cm. So it is not an ideal contour.

Sorry if it wasn´t so helpful