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    • J Offline
      Jorgensen
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      Hi

      Is there any good tips for "connecting" revit and sketchup?

      We use revit most of the time, but for some work sketchup is a much better tool, but i wonder if there is good way to somehow connect the two programs as an altertive to work on two models.

      i have tried exporting as obj from revit and imported into sketchup using fluid obj import light, and it works fast and fine, but components / families gets exploded.

      i have then tried importing as dwg, and then using the groupbylayer plugin, but it takes forever to convert.....

      any tips for a good workflow?

      thanks
      jorgensen

      sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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        otb designworks
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        You might try the IFC format. I've had fairly good luck with that. Bringing IFC into SU loses all the layer info, which is annoying, and I am not sure if Revit will see layers coming with a SU export, but it's worth a try, at least.

        The import into SU does retain all the component names applied in Revit, so that's good. None of the geometry gets exploded, either, which is also good

        Cheers, Chuck

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        6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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          KrisM
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          My best method is to export a dwg file from Revit but do a solid export. This keeps everthything grouped and exports to layers. There is still some cleanup to do but there is no perfect solution.

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            Pixero
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            See my post here: https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=68000&hilit=+Revit

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