Convert Revit Family file to max/cad - without revit?

[Morne]

Hi all

Is there anything out there I can use to convert a revit family file to max or autocad (besides revit)?

[chriserskine]

you can't get them to export an ifc or fbx file?

[dlparisi]

You can always download the trial of Revit and use it in demo/viewer mode. It still allows export of .fbx in viewer mode.

[Morne]

I downloaded a model from a manufacturer's website. Options were either 2D cad or BIM file. In this case it was revit family file. In the time it takes me to download and install revit, I already modelled the thing 10 times over. I'm already halfway with the model. Its just a small bathroom fitting. Just thought I could save 10 minutes modelling the thing...

[glorybound]

I downloaded a model from a manufacturer's website. Options were either 2D cad or BIM file. In this case it was revit family file. In the time it takes me to download and install revit, I already modelled the thing 10 times over. I'm already halfway with the model. Its just a small bathroom fitting. Just thought I could save 10 minutes modelling the thing...

next time, let me know, and I'll convert it for you.

[prateekvishwa]

2013 can directly import revit file.. ( link to revit option)

[dlparisi]

I think it only imports rvt files, not the families.

[deflix]

Why bother?
Revit has rendering too you know......

[Morne]

next time, let me know, and I'll convert it for you.

Thanks Bobby, will do

I think it only imports rvt files, not the families.

Yes that is correct. In laymens terms a family is kind of a block or template of a certain "type" of element, it is not the revit "scene file" itself

Why bother?
Revit has rendering too you know......

Yes I see you now also get Maxwell for Revit, wonder when we'll see VRay for revit

[trixian]

Last I imported rvt files, I got everything in correctly. What family types don't come in?

[trixian]

Can max import IFC now?

[Morne]

Last I imported rvt files, I got everything in correctly. What family types don't come in?

well this was a RFA family file. NOT a RVT scene or project file
Max cant import RFA, only RVT

[voltron7]

You can always download the trial of Revit and use it in demo/viewer mode. It still allows export of .fbx in viewer mode.

Hello dlparisi, could you please elaborate a bit? I have tried this as a demo, and don't remember seeing such an option. Thanks in advance!

[glorybound]

you just export, as you would a dwg, but chose FBX.

[voltron7]

lol, I know how to export it, I was thinking, based on some comments here, that there was a version you could install, just to open/view/export. I guess it is just the same as the 30 day trial...oh well, thanks guys.