Hi,
I’ve been attempting to export a furniture family (following the 3d DWG to a Clean Revit Family workflow by Ben, Sep 2023). When I click on the Export to Revit (from Sketchup), nothing happens…I get a spinning wheel that never goes away, but nothing else.
@Shana - welcome to the forum!
Apologies for the late reply - last week, most of our team was at the Autodesk University 2024 conference.
Here’s a link to the article you are referencing: 3d DWG to a Clean Revit Family
Regarding the error:
Hi Ben,
I was using a trial version previously (wasn’t working). The Chair.skp file worked. I am still having issues with importing my file. The file is huge, so that may be an issue…? See link below.
@Shana FYI, I updated the title of this post to better reflect the issue, so others can find it more easily.
Hey Daniel,
Can you help me figure out why I am not able to convert 3d cad files? I downloaded your chair example file and it worked fine. I am not able to get my files to work.
I just downloaded your model, taking a shot at getting it converted. My target is Revit 2022 as its the oldest I have currently installed. Will edit this reply when I get something.
You are right on the file size! For a single section of a sofa it is a very large SKP file.
It could be that large polycount objects need to be poly-reduced.
Skimp is a SketchUp Extension that can poly-reduce: SketchUp Extension Warehouse
Here’s their website: Skimp | Simplify your Sketchup model | Import FBX, OBJ and more
It’s a paid product, but they have a free trial.
Transmutr is another plugin: Lindalë
@Shana
What Ben suspected is absolutely the case. The model is just way too precise. Here in this screenshot, I have enabled the faces and edges to show and pulled up the total count.
You would want to reduce this count to something at least under 50,000 to have decent performance.
Edit:
Dug into solving the issue. There is a tool for reducing poly called Universal Importer free and open source for what it’s worth.
I was still having issues importing this model with a target of 40,000. Even at that 10x reduction in poly it was still very dense at the edges and probably why it was still hanging up. After targeting 20,000 it imported as expected.
Revit Family:
Estrella.rfa (920 KB)
Still looks pretty good and performs well in Revit.
If anything else pops up, happy to help.
Awesome find! That’s amazing!
Thank you both for helping! I appreciate it.
