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First post, so here goes... Thanks to all the previous newbies who've asked so many questions on these forums, I've learnt quite a lot in the last 2 months just by reading forums, without actually having to ask for help. The answers are all here (if you search well enough)... Nevertheless, a few questions worth asking: Firstly; I've exported my Revit model to Sketchup, then to Kerkythea (as suggested by many users here). I need to know when is the best time to add cars, trees, people, etc. In Sketchup, I presume? Secondly; Is it best to rather assign materials/textures in Sketchup, or rather leave it for Kerkythea? Lastly; My Revit model is massive. I'm talking 250 apartments plus about 200 000 sq/m of office space plus 9 levels of parking (about 9000 bays). The file itself is fast approaching 60 Mb in Revit. And that's just the conceptual sketch model. I'm afraid that once I start adding more detail to the buildings, the file size would become too difficult to deal with when exporting. (Importing it into Kerkythea took just under 4 hours!) And yes, I have a good fast pc. Any tips on how to keep the file size to a bare minimum when exporting (? Besides hiding unecessary objects like internal staircase/balusters, etc. of course... And a big thanks to all the Revit Pro's for their patience with us newbies! Whoop-Whoop!
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Welcome Durban - I was born there. I am not sure why you would want to export the revit model to sketchup or other software. Can you not do what you want to do in Revit?
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Hi Fringpanwarrior. If you want to add cars, people, etc. do it in sketchup, in fact many of the models that we use in Revit, are .dwg models imported from sketchup. Some of the materials used in sketchup are not recognized by Kerkythea, so be careful with that (why don´t you try with vray for sketchup?). Do you purge your files before exporting to .dwg???
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Hi all, @ tim123, rendering in Revit isn't good at all. I've been tweaking light and manouvering shading etc for hours on end, and as great as Revit 2008 is, it's simply not great for rendering. For real-time photo-realistic rendering, I'm afraid other software has to be used. That's why I'm moving between Revit / Sketchup / Kerkythea. @ erland73, thanks for the tips. Much appreciated. I'll be uploading my first images as soon as they're done!
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