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SeanWhite

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Hi all, 

I'm a new revit user and I'm trying to model a library for my architecture degree course and I've encountered what you all probably note as a basic problem. I've made an existing mass on SketchUp and imported this in Revit and am treating this object almost like the skin to the facade of the building. I then planned to model each of the floors by using an existing pdf template and drawing over these in revit and inserting them into the building.

I've managed to successfully add topography, but I cant seem to be able to pick walls, roofs, windows etc on the mass as it keeps selecting it as a whole. On the original sketchup file the elements like walls, and a roofs were brought into from sketchup as separate entities.

Does anyone have any solutions as to how I may be able to almost "explode" the mass and pick the faces and define them as whatever I want?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm trying to teach myself via online tutorials and videos and theres quite a steep learning curve that goes with this software!

Sean

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Typhoon

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No, No, No... A MASS is a MASS, you can apply walls, roof, floors and curtain system by face to a MASS, a SKETCHUP file is a DUMB object, it's not a REVIT object... If you imported that as a ONE file that's what you have... One object and not several parts like "roofs, walls, floors" and so on...

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WWHub

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These walls are straight vertically.  Use Revit walls / floors and roof.  Much easier.

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