Exporting From REVIT Architecture Tweet

[JeffreyMcGrew]

The only easy and sane path right now is to export your Revit models to FBX, and then import those models into MAX.

Once you're in MAX you can then export to whatever you want to.

FBX exporting in Revit is seriously broken and ONLY works with MAX. Even Autodesk's own converter won't work 100% of the time, and even when it does it messes up the axis and material assignments.

Sadly, the feature should really be called 'Export to MAX' for it doesn't work with anything else.

So Revit -> MAX -> (any other 3D package if desired) -> Octane is really the only current path.

[Jaberwocky]

Would the answer be to have a DXF exporter built instead direct to Octane.That way it would be a catch all for all users of Autodesk and other products such as Turbocad Etc. DXF is a widely used file exchange format.Build one exporter for hundreds of products.

[JeffreyMcGrew]

Probably not. DXF isn't as much as a standard as you think. The problem is that Textures are handled differently within DXF by different systems. For example, with Revit exports to DXF, things are grouped by the layer export standards (i.e. by object category) and not by material. Materials are in the DXF, but as x-data tagged onto the end of the DXF. X-data is kind of a catchall in DXF for anything 'extra' and isn't really standardized.

So you'd get a model but it wouldn't be as nice of an experience as you think unless you made a Revit-specific DXF importer or something. Which, if you were going to do that, well it would be easier and nicer to just make a Revit plugin for OBJ exporting for Octane (or anything else). Which is something my company is currently investigating doing.

OBJ is really a great format for this sort of stuff, and it's a shame that Revit doesn't do it currently.

[Ian.Kidston]

I would like to put my shoulder to the wheel and plead, beg, grovel - pay?, for a plugin which will allow me to export directly from Revit to Octane.

Even going through Max is a real pain with how materials are dealt with in the import process.

Cheers,

Ian

[Seekerfinder]

+1
Yes please!!

[Jaberwocky]

Have you tried FreeCad? as a file pass through option from Revit to Octane

Maybe worth trying to pass a revit file through that.

The program is pretty basic at the moment.It's under development.but it does have various import/export options

Oh yes ... and it's free..(hint in the name )

Link

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/f ... =Main_Page

hope that helps