export revit to sketchup with design options

If you export from Revit and thence into a SKP, you get a 'layered mess', with duplicated components that are actually identical - e.g. In fact secondary building around your main building in Revit are more easily made as SKPs and imported. SKP into Revit is therefore relatively straightforward BUT needs some work to meld the two together. If you don't import it as a massing element a SKP comes in as a 'block' that is relatively useless later - except for some fixed thing like a reception counter that doesn't need intelligence later. after that you can start looking at adding the secondary elements like doors etc and progress to your CDocs.

You can import a SKP directly into Revit - it should be imported as a 'massing element' then you convert the various parts of it into walls, roof, floors, curtain-walling etc using Revit's tools so they can have the required 'intelligence' they need for later use. It looks like it will be real time consuming to do the property lines trees textures and existing/demo/and 2 or 3 new 3D drawing versions to show client? Should this be a breeze in Revit once I get the hang of things? Or does my initial thoughts have any value? What is the steps SU and Revit users use to get things done? I can see the value in doing Construction Docs in Revit, but very confused on the best way to proceed? Not sure if the import/export from one to the other actually saves lots of time in the long run? I have only been using Revit for one day (so I do not know really of what I am talking About ! (Seams simular to Architectural Desktop, but more rough?) I started trying to do everything in Revit from scratch as my friend directed. And when design presentations are done and the go ahead to do Construction Documents is given, only then redraw everything according to the approved SU model in Revit from scratch? I am 'thinking' it is best to do initial design phase and each client design change completely in SU. (and CurtainWalls will all come in on the same layer and apparently you cannot change this in Revit.)Īnyone with other opinions/easier way, please let me know!įrom a time/design stand point. Keep in mind, that this is not a science, but an art, as Revit models are frustratingly inaccurate beasts. Then, using that Layers and Materials tool, option 3 will automatically paint any material onto the surfaces on the layer for which it is named. Modify each material it creates or delete a material and create your own with the identical name to the one you deleted. Using that tool, the first option creates 'dummy' materials named for each layer in your model. Since your Revit model should be drawn on layers, this should come in very handy to automatically paint all your glass or window frames or walls almost instantly. This tool in SketchUp lets you paint things in the SketchUp file automatically by the layer they are on. Layers_materials.rb (updated link as of Jan 2017, but ruby has not been updated since 2010. >find your exported dwg from Revit step above should be 'Automatic, Long' and 'Current View' Save As Type> AutoCAD 2004 DWG Files>don't change anything else.

Export revit to sketchup with design options