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Jroberts18

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I do the bulk of my conceptual modeling in Sketchup Pro just because I'm more efficient in it than I am in Revit, but now that I am ready to start modeling in Revit 2011, I'm having an annoying problem.  I've got a curtain wall that I would really like to model inside of Revit from my original Sketchup model, however I can't just bring it in and use it because the actual surface is not a true surface inside of Skechup.  I had to triangulate multiple rectangles and hide the diagonal to give it the illusion of a planar surface.  What I was going to try to do was bring the bounding lines into Revit and create a surface  by picking the lines of the dwg.  Then I was going to model a curtain wall by picking the surface; however, since none of the lines fall in the same plane, picking a reference plane to use while creating the surface is impossible.  Does anyone have any tips on how I could do this.  I attached some photos from both Sketchup and Revit to give some visual cues as to what I'm trying to do. 

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I don't know why the second visual didn't come along for the ride, but here it is.

Edited on: Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:24:44 PM

Okay, so I have no Idea why both images aren't showing up.

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