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. SketchUp now links to REVIT 9. Yeah ! Now I'm interetsed. Below is a link to a 10 minute Video Tutorial on integtating SketchUp with REVIT 9. It's simple, download the free version of SketchUp, install it, draw something really cool and then inport / link the SketchUp model into REVIT 9 in no time at all. Click the link below or right click to Save Target As.." to download the clip. http://www.dgcad.com/downloads/REVIT-9-UP-SKETCHUP.wmv ----------------------------------------------------------Edit by TomD: made link to DGCAD Clip live 4-4-07
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Im in the process of installing sketchup now. Ive never actually used it so im interested to test it out.
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I had heard lots about it but had never tried it out. Now that it talks to REVIT, I'm all over it.
After you install it you can go get a ton of free sketchup compmemets.
It's toooo much.
I have a blog already > http://sketchuprocks.blogspot.com/
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SketchUp has talked to Revit for a while. We've found that it is more successful going from Revit to SketchUp, though. At times it seems some of the really cool things from SketchUp get "lost in translation" when going to Revit. However, taking a Revit model into SketchUp, cleaning it up a little, and applying materials from SketchUp, very cool.
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i was at a CAD conference earlier, and it appears AutoCAD's 3-d components are much, much better now in 2007. (my first 3-d experiments were in Revit, so i am spoiled). but people who do know, seem to think AutoCAD's new engine is very comparable to Sketchup, but with the added benefit of being compatable with Revit (not to mention the nicer snaps).
i know very little about this, just relaying what i have been told.
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I realize I'm a little late getting on the SketchUp boat. Too much production work to keep me busy....
I agree with Kesflower. I have started to export from REVIT to DWG (acis solids) then inport into SketchUp (don't forget to change your units to inches) and then BACK to REVIT with a cool jpg snap shot !
In sketchup I apply the sun shadows, display line 'jitter', add in a few trees, cars, people, air planes background buildings or whatever and just like that I am an Architectal illustrator, Well not quite but good enough to fool most, hehehe. I also leave it in Black and White on a tinted background some times and it looks even more like a hand sketch on tracing paper.
Seriously my clients don't know what hit them. I do a screen capture of the new cool sketchup 3d view, save as jpg and import it back onto a REVIT sheet.
My drawing presentations have taken on an entire new look.
I am, also working on a large residential developement project where by I am providing the cool Sketchup 3d views in black and white after designing in REVIT, and then a real illustrator gets out the colored markers and goes to town. This works great for closeups too. Zoom right in and capture just the entrance or another special detail you want to enphasize.
I have attached a sample that took nothing to create. I can add color or leave it as is.
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Wouldn't it be awsome if revit made the extrusion command as simple as it is in Sketch-up, had my first go in it today, uploaded a 3d image and placed on it on Google earth, far easier than doing it on Revit.
Hope the revit boys are looking at sketch up and see if they can make it easier,
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I do a SketchUp redition of all my REVIT projetcs now. It's too easy. My customers are loving it.
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Has anyone had any luck importing a sketchup model into Revit 8.0? If I export from Sketchup to CAD then import to Revit, do I lose anything?
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I tested importing SketchUp in Revit V9 and V9.1 and it works really well for small SketchUp models. However on larger file it didn’t want to deal, and I can’t remember what the biggest file was, and Autodesk could not tell me the limit. So my question is….what the biggest SketchUp file you imported into Revit?
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I don't get what all the hubbub is here. When I import sketchup models, they come in with no way to apply materials/colors - just a white blob. What am I missing?
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Enginator, check out the SketchUp to Revit tutorial in the tutorial section. you have to import the SketchUp model into a mass element in order to apply materials or building components to the SkecthUp faces. HTH
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Oh, yes, I understand that you can do wall-by-face for a building, etc. But I'm talking for families and such. Sorry, I should have clarified that. I can't do a wall-by-face on say, a shelf unit, or a desk, or even casework.... or can I?
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as long as you import it into a mass, you should. even if you are creating components, you can use masses or imported masses HTH
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Ah, I see. This is going to open up a whole new aspect of Revit for me  Although, I don't think I fully understand what you are suggesting. Here's what I thought you meant. File-New-Family->Mass.rft Import Sketchup But then I don't know what to do from there. Of course, the wall by face commands are not there for a family. What am I missing?
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