What Revit Wants
Revit users have been able to import SKP directly for many years … now AutoCAD gets an app for exactly that purpose:
The SketchUp Import plug-in allows you to import a SketchUp file (*.skp) into an open drawing as a block reference. The SketchUp model will be imported as a block containing mesh and other objects. This plugin works with SKP files created in Google SketchUp version 5 or later.
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Autodesk Exchange Apps
DWF publishing helps you enhance collaboration and easily exchange project information with extended teams. Download the free* Autodesk® DWF™ Writer to securely share 2D and 3D data as DWF files—no matter what design application you’re using. Now available for 32- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft® Windows®.
FAQ (pdf – 53Kb)
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A very reasonable, interesting and intelligent post from Steve Stafford … here is a quote of my favourite part:
Consider that Archicad would love it if we all woke up tomorrow and gave them credit for doing it all years earlier. Ahead of their time, poorly marketed, not really the “right” solution?
I don’t even care. If you do, keep in mind it’s an endless debate with no practical outcome. The fact remains that until Revit and Autodesk’s ability to focus resources on creating an obvious difference between what “we” are doing and what “we” ought to be doing…there had been little or no serious progress by any product attempting to solve problems in similar ways, not even their own other product.
If you’ve made the decision. Congratulations! You are moving forward.
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Revit OpEd: Yeah But
What could this tweet mean?
Translated first sentence:
Great news: soon only 1 flavor revit for all disciplines!
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Twitter / @WimBremmer: Geweldig nieuws: straks no …
Translated:
Do you agree?
Here is a more complete quote:
One of the biggest practical obstacles to effective diffusion of BIM in the industry is the lack of data exchange standards and associated protocols. The Industry Foundation Class (IFC) definitions being developed by BuildingSMART will be useful, but will probably be used mainly as an archive format. IFC is too complex, too large, and too fragile to survive in the real world of live projects. Commercial IT companies are much more likely to produce a robust solution in this situation than committees of experts.
So why not accept the facts as they are and recognise Revit (for now) as a de facto industry standard? We can allow or incentivise Autodesk to licence the Revit file format—perhaps one or two versions late—on a FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) basis to its competitors, and use competition law to regulate the situation. (It’s important in this to separate out the idea of data interoperability from application interoperability—how different systems store data from how they represent the behaviours of data objects. The first can probably reasonably be made public, the second probably not.)
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Beyond BIM – Building With Perfect Information: AECbytes Viewpoint #64
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This is not something you are going to need to do everyday, and probably less and less as PLT files become a thing of the past. But, if you ever do need to, here are two tools that may help:
guthrie CAD :: GIS – Hpgl2CAD Download
HPGL2CAD 4.0
4.0 A.13
11.0 MB, Updated December 7, 2011
in a project where you want to inherit the properties panel in the “Manage” choose “a color designation schemes,” and in the “Deselect” target checkbox only “color scheme designations.”
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Заметки о Revit и том, что с ним связано: Копирование свойств легенды помещений из проекта в проект
An old (2006) but insightful post by Phil Read:
if Max/SketchUp/etc.understood the intent of what you were modeling, I suspect the translation to Revit would be far more rational. But this isn’t the case. Those tools produce generic geometry. But geometry alone isn’t enough; you have to be able to embed intent. Creating morphic forms is an interesting exercise in design iteration. But making blobs isn’t the same thing as making decisions about construction (or constructibility). Blobs don’t have the same rules as buildings.
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In response to my post about Using RDB Link to Tag Wall Volume, Julien Benoit has posted a few helpful comments. He also referred to his post on RFO.
I previously posted about WhiteFeet tools here. Basically, the Revit Parameter Tools allow you to drive Shared Parameters with object information that is normally concealed from tags, such as Volume. There is a lot more to the WhiteFeet package than this, but certainly this is easier than having to go out to RDBLink / Access and back again every time…
Check out screencast embedded below. Thanks Julien!
DWG import and export (free)
Currently, the best way to exchange DWG/DXF with SketchUp is to use SketchUp 7.1 & the DWG/DXF import plugin for SketchUp 7.1 (Free)
As of now, both SketchUp version 7.1 and the optional installer are available for download. Only the Pro version of SketchUp 7.1 is available for download, but that’s OK – it will revert to the Free version after 8 hours use, and you will be able to continue using it.
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Jim’s SketchUp [Plugins] Blog: SketchUp 8 Free & DWG/DXF
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Google SketchUp Pro 7 Download
DWG/DXF import plugin for SketchUp 7.1 (Free)
Windows
Mac
The DWG/DXF importer isn’t available in Google SketchUp 7.1, however it is offered in Google SketchUp Pro. You can download this optional plugin for Windows or Mac that enables the DWG/DXF importer.
IFC2SKP
Last updated: June 2008
IFC2SKP works inside SketchUp and has the ability to load IFC datafrom popular BIM (CAD) applications such as Revit, ArchiCAD and Microstation. The plug-in will not only load the geometry or object data into SketchUp from the IFC file format but it will also display the BIM data of each imported objects. IFC2SKP has been updated to work in SketchUp 8.
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http://sketchup.google.com/download/plugins.html
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Download IFC2SKP Program File
OBJ importer
If you need an .obj importer plugin for Sketchup, you can check out FluidImporter.
FluidImporter is super fast (entirely written in C++) and completely free.
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Downloads | FluidRay – Physically Based Renderer
Older OBJ importer:
View topic – [Plugin] Import OBJ with Materials v1.9 20110223 • SketchUcation Community Forums
Various Sketchup resources and plugins:
Resources – SketchUp Sage
