Dear all,
I’ve been studying the possibilities and limitations of direct shapes in Revit for several days. In particular, I am sending large context models to Revit, and geometries arrive decently with assigned materials that can be manipulated through the Revit material editor. However, when it comes to UV mapping, it is known that Direct Shapes do not offer any control, and you end up with unexpected results depending on the complexity of the geometry.
An alternative method to Direct Shapes objects is FreeForm Elements which are the result of importing a geometry through an OBJ file and then exploding them in Revit. When you use this method, the mapping assigned in the authoring software is preserved, so Revit does not need to handle the mapping by itself.
Currently, Speckle supports the Free Form Element, and I wonder if it is possible to do the same with RhinoIside Revit or if this feature is part of the roadmap.
See the image below to understand why a FreeForm Element workflow might interest many users.
Many thanks to the MacNeel team for their fantastic support and for developing this technology.
Cheers.
