Revit to Sketchup for rendering workflow

[jason_cafferty]

Hello All,

We have been asked by a client if we can do some better quality renderings that currently produced in-house. The models are already made and textured in Revit but we do our rendering in SU with Vray.

Is it possible to bring Revit into SU in a way that retains their texturing so we can just make the lighting and material changes we wish then render our the scenes required?

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi jason_cafferty ,

A perfect solution for such a scene transfer is still not available.
There is however a way to transfer the Revit scene to SketchUp while preserving some of the materials data (only diffuse textures will be preserved).
It would be required for you to have V-Ray for Revit as well as V-Ray for SketchUp up and running (a trial of V-Ray for Revit will also work).

Here are the exact steps that follow:

1. Export the Revit project as a .vrscene file.
2. Import the model in SketchUp using the File/Import function. Make sure you have selected .vrscene as a file type and tweak the import options depending on your needs. The defaults should work fine I believe.
3. The scene should make it through. You can now continue editing it and refining to finalize the project.

Let me know if this works for you.
Also note that we'll be improving the vrscene import feature in the future so that more of the V-Ray specific material properties make it through.

Regards,
Konstantin

[jason_cafferty]

I won't be able to let you now if this works for me as client doesn't have Vray for Revit. I do have a friend who's going to export me a model with textures to see how we get on.