Revit Max, and Autodesk

[Jefferson Grigsby]

Anyone else have experience importing large Revit files into Max 8???

I am working on a large revit model that imports into max very poorly due to Autodesks insistance of using DWG linking in their MAX import filters. In days of old Max used to bring everything in by material, thus creating one object all attached by material, and thus creating a very efficient max file to work in. Now it likes to import all the geometry as seperate pieces, with a bunch of invisible block references that do little more than bog down the scene and slow the display. Is there any way around this DWG linking disaster they have created?

 

 

In theory DWG linking would be very nice, if not only did it actually work, but if it did not create the world's slowest model file. Typically I like to attach all of my geometry by material to speed up the display, as well as organize and speed up the render file. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any way around this DWG linking filter which also brings a lot of garbage, block instances, cropping boundries, etc.., and there is no way to differentiate between the actual geometry and the chaff.

I am spending too much time cleaning up these files. This can not be right. Somebody tell me Autodesk really does not expect us to wade through this DWG linking mess soley for the purpose of organizing a model and rendering it in Max, seems rather pointless to have this functionality if it also happens to make the files so slow they are unusable.

Now that they own revit and MAX, one would think they would tighten this up a bit?? Does anyone else have a solution to this issue, or know if Autodesk plans to address this in future Releases?

 

 

thanks in Advance

Jefferson Grigsby

[jamesB]

Check out http://www.augi.com

 

You can do a search in the rendering section of the forum or post your question. During weekdays you'll get an answer within minutes. In the weekend it might take a little bit longer.

[Npower]

hello,

 

I think our new Revit to Max transaltor might solve your problem.

 

Try it for free here.

 

http://npowersoftware.com/translators/PT_Revit_to%20Max_Overview.htm

 

Also, you can comment on your results here in the CG Architect.

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/29088-revit-max-beta.html

[alias_marks]

you're not alone friend. We are almost having the exact same problems you are and are avidly looking for a valuable solution. We've tried the nPower tools a bit, but we still get crashes with larger files.

 

It seems anything above a 30 mb Revit file is a pain to manage and get to a usable level in Max/Viz. There's talk of translating through the fbx format for the next release of Revit, We'll just have to wait and see if that works....maybe.

 

Michael