Revit Translation Case Study

[cberg]

No problems or complaints per se, but I just wanted to share some observations with the VW community. 

 

I've been working with files that were sent to me from a firm that specializes in 3D scanning.  I thought you might find the following results interesting. Attached are screenshots from a Revit model that was exported into a variety of 3d export formats.  Here are my results when I imported into VW.

 

1. Importing Revit Files into VW 2018 creates incomplete or incorrect translations of objects into VW native objects.  Varying the other Revit Import Settings doesn't seem to help much, but mostly yields messy meshes and not so great solids.  I encountered something called a "failed solid" in one of these translations.
2. 3d Dwg's are helpful to understand what the native geometry should look like.
3. Properly exported IFC 2x3 files, seem to yield the best geometry and texture translation.   For 2d Output, however, having a model full of solid objects (which cannot be converted to VW native objects is problematic).  

 

This is why being able to convert solids to VW native smart objects is so important, and improvements to the lowly wall tool are critical to VW success in the BIM environment.  Improvements to Revit inter-operability would also be very much appreciated!

 

Hope you are all having a good day. 

 

 

 

 

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Edited May 11, 2018 by cberg