Best method for importing Grasshopper Geometry into Revit

Rhino.Inside Revit
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Hi,

I am wondering what is the best way to get Grasshopper geometry into a Revit project?

In the two pictures below I have used the DirectShape Brep - Brep GH Revit node. It takes one input a Brep and the results are shown below.

It cuts correctly in plan views or sections.

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But the outline of the closed breps are not visible, thus in elevation the shapes will not display correctly.

shape outlines not visible
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#3 stadium -2.gh (32.9 KB)

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Thanks for sharing the gh definition. I ran it on my Revit 2020 and I can actually see everything in elevation. Make sure your elevation view is set to no clip or adjust the near and far planes to correctly include the shell

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The issue I was having is the surfaces appear like meshes with all the interior edges showing which is not a great appearance in Revit. I think this is a Revit issue. I tried solids on a different definition with more success i.e. it didn’t have the interior edges.

I’m going to be doing the ThinkParametric web course on Rhino.Inside Revit and see what I learn from that then come back to this. Thanks

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I really like the form, very cool.

That is a hard problem in that Revit is limited in what it can import as a Surface. The mesh is just a symptom that Revit rejected the NURBS defininition.

Here are a few clues that you could see it was going to happen:

  1. In Rhino if there are many isoparms that are not bunched up in places, that is a sign that the original curves are not well formed. So, instead of this:
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    you will want the surface to look like this:

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  1. Also, Revit does not like edges less then 1mm. Here is the bottom edged of the trims that go to a point:
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If I reduce these to surfaces and solids. Then use the rebuilt surface with less isoparms you can get it into Revit quite nice. Here is one bay as an example:

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I only got to work on this model just quickly. I am happy to answer any questions you have about how to progress to a solution here within your workflow.

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Thanks. That is what I was after. I’m still just learning it gonna start with the ThinkParametric course.

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