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Does anybody out there use sketch up? We do alot of "theming" elements that are done very easily in sketch up. Woulkd love to hear from someone that uses it and maybe has convention of using both revit and sketch elements. i.e. sketch up elements into revit, materials from sketch up , adding materialis to sketch up elements, etc. Would appreciate any insight as I lead our office into developing a new process of design work with using both of of the softwares.
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I've made use of sketchup in some presentation work before. The typical processes was to do with exporting out of revit to sketch up though, and no the materials don't come with it (from memory).
Importing sketchup into revit would be best done as a mass so you replace the sketch up elements with intelligent revit elements.
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We use Sketchup a little in our office. It is a great piece of software, but until recently I thought of the process of starting in SketchUp then going to Revit. Then in our last Revit users group meeting we were shown some examples of taking the Revit model to SketchUp and using the toolset in SketchUp for doing non-rendered material studies, walk-thru's, xray views which are things that SketchUp is very good at while still keeing the main modeling task to Revit.
You can take SketchUp to Revit via a Revit family by exporting out of Sketchup to dwg and then insert the dwg into Revit family like any other dwg. See the tutorial on this site for procedure.
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Thanks. If think of anything else I would appreciate it so I minimize mistakes. Do you know if the paint bucket in Revit is 2d fills only or can it be applied on masses. I think I am not quite grasping the material aspects of Revit because I have the concepts of sketch up in my head. Thanks again.
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You can take SketchUp to Revit via a Revit family by exporting out of Sketchup to dwg and then insert the dwg into Revit family like any other dwg. See the tutorial on this site for procedure.
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Do you mean the tutorail named
How to grow your family: Making use of models created in 3D studio or AutoCAD by: maxlloyd?
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Yes,
I believe that it the one.
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P.S. Where is the quote feature on this site????
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Thanks. The quote feature is in the forum on, each box it has a quote button in order to respond to specific responds.
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"Thanks. The quote feature is in the forum on, each box it has a quote button in order to respond to specific responds."
Wow.......I can't believe that in 2.5 years I never noticed it on this forum!!!!!
Now where are those little icons with a red face??
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Mr. Spot said: "The typical processes was to do with exporting out of revit to sketch up though" I am having a difficult time trying to figure out how to import Revit files into sketchup. I've imported from sketchup to Revit but not the other way around. Do I have to export my Revit model out as something else, like a dwg, to do this? Please help! Thanks, Juke
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" "Thanks. The quote feature is in the forum on, each box it has a quote button in order to respond to specific responds." Wow.......I can't believe that in 2.5 years I never noticed it on this forum!!!!!Now where are those little icons with a red face??Tom"
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yes, export to dwg. it doesn't bring in materials though, but it looks cool.
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