Nesting Enscape Assets in Revit Families

Hi everyone - I’ve been experimenting with the process of nesting Enscape assets into Revit family components and I think there’s lots of advantages. For example, nesting light sources in an Enscape asset (like this SUV) and prepping furniture / casework with books and other entourage. The visibility of nested assets can be controlled with a Family Type parameter. Step by step process and thread over here on Twitter as well as download links of sample files: https://twitter.com/PhilRead/status/1339958797658370049

Hope this helps everyone get the most out of using Enscape with Revit!! :slight_smile:

Thanks for sharing Phil. I’ve added this to our growing Enscape Resource Collection here as well. :slight_smile:

Not sure why but when I nested an Enscape light onto a new revit lighting fixture family to apply a light source and loaded it into my project, Enscape rendered the asset all white and won’t show the materials.

Because you didn’t open the Enscape asset and select the “Shared” option. See thread. Select “Shared” then reload Enscape asset into the Revit family then reload into your project. :slight_smile:

@phil_read Ah ! Got it. Thank you.

Awesome, this is a great idea. It’d help a lot speeding up the “polish” stage of my enscape outputs. It’s hard to justify to clients why placing books around bookcases, stuff on tables, or shelves being decorated is worth the time spent. Especially since doing this manually one by one is a very slow process with how Enscape loads in assets to revit (though the use of an offline library has helped speed this up a lot).