From the course: SketchUp & Revit Workflow

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From the course: SketchUp & Revit Workflow

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- [Instructor] Hello, and welcome to the SketchUp to Revit Workflow. My name is Paul Smith, and in this series we'll be seeing how SketchUp and Revit can work together to enhance your workflow. Now, it's called SketchUp to Revit Workflow, as opposed to Revit to SketchUp Workflow because there tends to be more options from SketchUp into Revit, than from Revit into SketchUp. But, that doesn't mean to say that there's nothing that Revit can't offer SketchUp. So, from the SketchUp side, the SKP, or the Native SketchUp File Format, that can be read directly into Revit. Then, if you've got the SketchUp Pro version, you can export to DWG to DXF and to IFC, the Industry Foundation Class File Format, which is more commonly used for our BIM Modeling. On the Revit side, you can export DWGs, DXF, and IFC, and all of those can be read by SketchUp Pro. So, why would we want to use SketchUp and Revit, together? Well, if anyone's used Revit in the the past, then you might realize that some of the modeling functionality is a little bit more complicated than possibly SketchUp. Also, the fact that there are thousands of really useful models in the 3D warehouse that can be converted in Revit families, and then used in current and future projects. Now the other useful thing is that, in SketchUp you can download dual locations and topo surfaces, and those can be exported from SketchUp as a DXF or a DWG, and imported into Revit and then used to create a topo surface. On the other side, Revit Massing is quite powerful. And, sometimes some of the ways in which it works are not necessarily that intuitive. So, if you take a look at the example on the far left, that's the One World Tower, taken from the 3D warehouse, and the model on the right is a Revit version, which used the reference planes, from the SketchUp model to generate the 3D Mass inside of Revit. So, some nice little workflows that can be adopted. And, as far the transmitter tower on the top is concerned, if your Revit skills aren't up to it, then you can just export that part of the model directly from SketchUp into Revit, and position it on the top. Now, Revit does have something to offer SketchUp. The floor plans and sections generated from a Revit model can be exported as 2D CAD plans in DWG or DXF, and then used in a SketchUp model. You might want to enhance some detailing, or do some better renderings, and all those sorts of things could be generated directly from SketchUp. You can also, via the IFC, take some things that Revit does very easily, like create complex stairs and export those directly into SketchUp for rendering or utilizing as part of your SketchUp geometries. So, it's not one way traffic, by any stretch of the imagination. So, that's the sort of thing we'll be covering in this course. In the next video, I'll explain what you need to know before you start.

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