I actually started off my career drawing by hand. I've worked with most major CAD platforms over the course of 25 years in A/E and manufacturing companies.
It is far more cost effective to have the basic models created in Sketchup then imported by power users with Revit to transform them into BIM families. The cost to outfit everyone necessary to the task with Revit is astronomical. There simply is no easy way to get from SE to Revit so Revit models have to be created from scratch. However, our products are used in commercial enterprises and it has become necessary to create Revit models for our customers' A/E teams to use in their BIM design process. Our products are part of a PLM structure with SolidEdge as our design software. We have hundreds of draftsmen/designers/engineers. I work for a large global manufacturing company. Exploded SketchUp models should import at the correct scale. Scaling: Groups or components that have been scaled in their entirety with the SketchUp Scaling tool may be incorrectly scaled when imported to Revit Architecture. SketchUp and Massing: Not all SketchUp imports are appropriate to massing. See Cuttable and Non Cuttable Family Categories. Texture Image Maps, Transparency, “Smooth” Curved Surfaces, Text and Dimensions, Raster Images, and saved “Pages”.Ĭut planes: Imports cannot be cut by a cut plane unless imported into a cuttable family category. SketchUp properties: The following SketchUp properties are currently not supported in Revit Architecture import: If faces are flipped and painted differently in SketchUp, they may not display the correct material in Revit Architecture. If there is material on both sides of the surface, Revit Architecture applies the Face 1 material to both sides. Two-sided surfaces: If a material or color is assigned to only one side of a surface in SketchUp, Revit Architecture applies the material or color to both sides of the surface by default. When importing SketchUp files, consider the following: įor additional information on working with SketchUp files in Revit Architecture, see Integrating SketchUp and Revit. For more information, see Suitability of Imported Geometry. TIP:Make sure you import the geometric data needed for the Revit Architecture capability that you plan to use. For more information, see Large-Scale Massing Studies in SketchUp. SketchUp ( SKP) files can be imported directly into a Revit Architecture mass or in-place family. In the Import/Link dialog, navigate to the folder that contains the SketchUp file.įor Files of Type, select the SKP file type. See Creating a Mass Family or Creating an In-Place Family. In the Revit project, create a mass or in-place family. I copied the following below from the Revit Tutorials.
The cool thing about this import is that you can replace the model walls with Revit building components to save you some time.
Import revit to sketchup pro#
Running a little low on time so to export from Sketchup to Revit, you need to have Sketchup Pro I've found to make it work best but essentially you need to go to: Now you can start painting up your Revit model in Sketchup. dwgĪlright so the next thing you notice is that when you click on your model it highlights the whole shootin match so click on your model right click and hit explode. Then specify under Files of Type ACAD Files. (The only advantage I've seen with Exporting Polymesh is when you are exporting/importing complex model geometries and mostly this is used in MAX, Maya or Rhino for vertices editing)
Import revit to sketchup how to#
Secondly, Sketchup is generally used for pretty pictures, easy graphics and 3d manipulation so for the most part I model in Revit and then export to Sketchup to make my pretty pictures.However, I can show you how to send it to either program either way.
Import revit to sketchup software#
To back up the first question I would ask is really? Because you can model everything in Revit much more accurately, and very quickly as well as keep Revit your primary modeling software that you're using for the job. So I got asked the question how do I take a sketchup model and turn it into a Revit file?
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