RogerC

Yeah, we are still outputting to ACAD first. There are just too many things we do to the model to refine it in ACAD. It gives us better final renderings, so it's worth the extra effort.

Jason, Actually the landscape part from Revit we usually toss completely and rebuild it in 3ds Max. We sometimes add detail to sites that never come from our client model. I'll give your idea of making separate exports a try. thanks cheers rec

ok thanks, Once I posted my message the forum gave me a list of related threads. I have a few things to try already. cheers rec

I'm just wondering if there are people in this forum using Revit as a modeler to create models to be rendered in 3ds Max. I just curious of the workflow people are using, to get high quality renders.

That'a basically what we are doing, but we pass the model editing through AutoCAD.

Well, we can't afford a slower render solution, as our render farm is slow enough as it is. We get Revit models, or exports from various companies. The quality varies enormously, but even the good ones still exhibit these problems. I'll see if I can come up with a concrete example and post it.

The problems we have are mostly related to double faces and irregular geometry which is causing problems when we go to animate the models.

Desmond, Do you use this workflow on a regular basis? Honestly we have used almost everything from Revit to 3ds Max directly and always have problems with the mesh.

Hi, I just wanted to see if there are people here that are exporting (or linking)their models to 3ds Max to create renderings. We have been doing this for a while, but passing our models through AutoCAD, where we do some editing. Kind of tedious but we get decent results at the end. Like to see what others are doing and the results they are getting. Thanks & cheers Roger C