Export Materials to Revit Plug In

[archtobi]

Hi everyone,
i try to export all my octane Materials to a revit scene using the octane for Revit plugin. Ist there an easy way to export/import materials from one plugin to another?

cheers Tobi

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export all my octane Materials to a revit scene using the octane for Revit plugin

Can you explain what you mean by this pls? This is the Rhino forum. There is another forum for Revit plugin users.

Paul

[archtobi]

ah sorry that was not claer:

i do modelling in rhino and render inside rhino with the octane for rhino plugin. we have a partner office, that also switches to octane but they work with revit and want to render with the octane for revit plugin. we do shoprenderings so i want to provide all the materials i did in the rhino plugin for my colleagues with revit. both, me in rhino and the partner office in revit do not work in the standalone. so we need a way to export materials from the rhino plugin to the revit plugin. is that possible without using the liveDB? maybe save as .xml like the rendertargets?

cheers and thanks for support!

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Thanks for the extra info.

There are a few of options:

1) The latest version of the Octane API has the ability to read a material from the Octane LocalDb. So you could save to ORBX in Rhino, open in Octane Standalone and save the materials to the local Db, then load them in the Revit plugin (I would need to add support for loading from the localDb into the Revit plugin).

2) You can currently save to ORBX from Rhino, open in Standalone, save each material as a separate ORBX and then import them into Revit (using the rightclick "Import Material from ORBX"). You can do this on the current versions of the plugins.

3) I could add an option to export a Rhino material to XML, which could then be imported into Revit using the "Import Material" option.

If you are only transferring a handful of materials, any of the above should be fine. If you are transferring hundreds of materials, you probably need some sort of new process to export all materials from Rhino and import them all to Revit. This would require the materials names exactly match in the Rhino and Revit scenes.

Paul

[archtobi]

Hi Paul,
thanks for the advice. I saved as ORBX, this was fine. But i think an .xml option would be more intuitive and usefull for users working massively with libraries and client-standarts (as we do with shoprenderings).

One more suggestion: Is the LocalDB local to a scene in the standalone or is this meant local to the system? because then it would be usefull to have acces to it via the plugin. But i can imagine it´s hard to implement...

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One more suggestion: Is the LocalDB local to a scene in the standalone or is this meant local to the system? because then it would be usefull to have acces to it via the plugin. But i can imagine it´s hard to implement...

The Octane Local Db can be accessed already in the plugin. Just Import an Octane Material from ORBX, then select the Local Db material you want from C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\OctaneRender\localDb. I will probably automate this at some stage, so there is a button to go directly to that folder.

Paul