Hello.
Is there an option to transfer a mesh as a family in Revit, with the wire meshes been invisible?
There is a workaround by importing the mesh in 3ds max, make the wires invisible, export as dxf version 2007, import to a Revit family.
Then the wires are invisible.
There must be a value which makes the wires invisible.
Can we automate that with Rhino inside?
Thank you
To the best of my knowledge, there exists a paid plugin âConveyorâ that perform all these tasks while exporting to Revit.
I know conveyor. I have tested in the past.
But I can achieve the same result with the procedure described in my first post.
To be able to work like this in Revit, the geometry should converted to dxf, and from there there is a property for edges which should be set to hidden. See the result below.
And see when switched to visible:
I think RIR developers can share a custom script with us to this, I canât afford conveyor and Try my best to avoid meshes because of this issue
If i understand correctly i think you need to turn on Folding Lines in the Visibility Graphics sub-categories.
I donât speak about toposolids here. I am speaking for any mesh geometry.
What type of Elements are looking to create? Revit tries to help by hiding Mesh âfolding linesâ
Hi,
we have slightly different approach. In Rhino, weld your mesh completely and unweld mesh edges you want to see in Revit.
Export as OBJ and import into family in Revit.
Nevertheless it sucks, Revit is not able to recognize edges within import, which makes it particularly difficult to lay down dimensions or grading annotations in sections.
Regards,
Pavel
It was correct that you connect this question with the other asking about toposolid creation.
I am using meshes mostly for survey and civil engineer constructions.
I attach a Revit file with an existing road. The sidewalk, the road surface and the existing ground site was transferred in Revit using the old grasshopper component topography Mesh. With this i was able to get the exact same triangulation. Trying to convert these toposurfaces to toposolids in Revit was not successful since it distorts the triangulation. But your answer about toposolids creation in the other post solve this problem.
What remains? The curb and gutter.
I was thinking two options:
create a closed polysurface in rhino using sweep1 or loft command. Then create a family and import the geometry. Revit handles very well this type of geometry, but the problem is that since the curves using to create the polysurface are degree 1 I will have many creases. In the past I was trying to convert these lines to degree 3 but its very time consuming, and many times produce invalid geometry. Its not easy to model roads with nurbs.
create a close mesh, and make the wires invisible. Its not the best option since the material cut patterns does not applied correct in sections and i need to override the appearance in object level to make it work, but its a solution until find a better one.
baking the toposolid in rhino I see that maybe revit store geometry as an acis solid and not as a mesh as I was expected. Is there a way to create a toposolid using a close mesh or a closed poysurface (with only planar surfaces). We can hide the edges in toposolids and floors and roofs. But i need to import the geometry.
Thanks
curb_gutter.rvt (952 KB)
I was wrong. I can create curb and gutter with the same way.
But the question remain. Can we add a closed shape directly as a toposolid or floor?
No, there are 3 overloads that the Revit API provides for working with TopoSolids. Planar Curves, Points, Existing Topo Surface.
