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abauer4242

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I have dental chairs and units in solid works I am trying to get into Revit. I've tried SolidWorks save file to step AP214, open in Inventor Fusion, save to SAT and open in Revit. No great success. Miscolanious things dissapear and you can not add materials to render. turns into grey lumps. Trying to rebuild the units in Revit but as a moddeling software Revit is not working. Complex forms are not working.

Any ideas how I can get this to work with rendering and no holes everywhere?

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mbsteve

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have you tried, sketchup. then import them into a family, then import to revit.

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abauer4242

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I haven't used Sketch up before and was trying to get this done without have to learn another software. Is sketch up good for complex forms?

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mbsteve

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I believe you can save your solid works files to something that can be read in Sketchup, then you can save them in a format, that can be read by Revit. And yes sketch up is pretty good with unusual forms, also check out 3D warehouse. Some manufacturer's are using sketchup for there 3D modeling for use in Revit and other 3D programs.

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