How to import SketchUp file to Revit as Parametric Family

[@sAriTtina]

Hi Joseph! I accidentally jumped into your video searching for skp to rvt. So cool to see you after so many years. You haven't changed at all since Genova. Greetings!

[@JosephKim]

Whaaat! I'm glad you found me :)

[@JosephKim]

You need to shoot me a email, Facebook, or something! Need to catch up.

[@rodrigosenra2693]

Whats up Joseph, thank you, man! Very nice explanation.

[@JosephKim]

My pleasure!

[@designersunlockedu1888]

Thank you for this video, I normally do my projects in Sketch Up and and have to redue the technical drawings in revit, but not since you told me this technic , it cuts my time in short , THANKS !!!!!!!!

[@JosephKim]

Perfect!

[@sethocohen]

Master jedi!!!...i am your padawan from now...cheers.

[@JosephKim]

:) may the force be with you.

[@fernandolino6493]

Autodesk has Formlt (similar to SU) and I think you can create families straight from there. I use Rhino for my organic shapes and curved families.

[@EmmanuelUkah]

Can you share with us how we can do this?

[@Orozco_PNW]

Great vid, Joseph! Has anyone figured out a way to hid the triangulated edges from the geometry? It is leading to performance issues in Revit...

[@JosephKim]

No, unfortunately, there isn't a good workflow other than spending time to carefully trace all the lines with detail line. Any mesh geometry will result in triangulations of faces in Revit. I wish it had some parameters to fix that.

[@kevinmorales2599]

Nice video man. can we add also the material from su to rfa file?

[@JosephKim]

Unfortunately, no

[@hsf2047]

can we change the dimensions of this imported SketchUp model inside Revit?

[@hsf2047]

such as scaling the object in only one dimension?

[@JosephKim]

Unfortunately, no. You can't streach. Just scaling uniformly.

[@hamadalmatrouk8402]

My problem is that whenever i import a sketchup file into revit the revit file becomes too slow. Also happens when I import 3dsmax models. Is there a solution to that?

[@JosephKim]

Not really. Just make sure you reduce the amount of geometry as much as possible before hand.

[@youngstallionyt]

When I import my CAD files to revit I cannot move them. Does anyone know why or is anyone having the same issue?

[@JosephKim]

Unpin it :)

[@yuenleilam5505]

it is possible to export with materials and images from sketchup to revit?

[@JosephKim]

I don't think there is a way to do that. Materials and images in general don't import all that well in Revit if it is foreign data.

[@MarkSomma]

Joseph thank you for the KZbin much appreciated. I enjoy the pace of your KZbin it's not so quick a person has a chance to understand clearly what's happening. yet I would appreciate if the music was turned down. For your words are more important than the music. it's a filler that's not relevant to the subject. otherwise great job.

[@JosephKim]

Thanks for the feedback, Mark!

[@glenn3646]

WHERE CAN I FIND SOME GOOD TREES FOR REVIT?

[@JosephKim]

It depends what you define as good. You can find free ones that are RPC content. But also paid assets, or your renderer may include some too

[@نحاسالعراقةالأصيل]

thanks .. nice explanation, but for an advice its loudly and not good music

[@JosephKim]

Got it, thanks!

[@fernandolino6493]

to be useful you need to import noncurved surfaces otherwise you get all the triangulation as you have there... I wouldn't have any model like that in my Revit files

[@JosephKim]

That's fair. But sometimes, you have to just get it done.

[@rashadco]

That was great man :).. The only issue is we had the SketchUp model without textures inside Revit!

[@rashadco]

I tried to put materials and I couldn't

[@JosephKim]

Yeah, that certainly is a downside.

[@kushagragupta2407]

hi Joshep...do you know how to import curve sketch element in revit, facing problem with unwanted lines.

[@JosephKim]

Unfortunately, Revit does not have methods to remove triangulated lines. That has been requested heavily by the community, but not available.

[@spoonnn....]

Can you show or review Formit with Revit? Is the Sketchup better than Formit??

[@JosephKim]

Formit is usually better with Revit transferring geometry than SketchUp, but I feel more comfortable recommending SketchUp as just better modeling tool.

[@spoonnn....]

Thanks for the quick reply. In architectural industry SketchUp is used more than Formit?

[@JosephKim]

@@spoonnn.... It would be difficult to generalize the whole industry. Plus, SketchUp is widely used in other industries where as Formit isn't as much.

[@mr.bhardwaj1615]

SketchUp ki jali ko revit ma kasa la ka ja a

[@faresjawad3096]

man too much complicated steps , revit is so difficult to learn .

[@JosephKim]

Some tools are definately more complicated. But you must pick up the right tool for the task! And once you get the hang of it, it isn't so bad! :)