As a 2 person studio for architecture, interiordesign and vizualisation, it happens we get a Revitfile from our clients. For modelling we have been working with Sketchup from the beginning. I think it was Sketchup 8, a long time ago.
Why one have to upgrade to Sketchup Studio, at more than double the price of a SU pro subscription, just to be able to import a rvt.file. Why isn’t the revitimporter a seperate extension, as it is shown in the extension warehouse, by the way mentioned as free, which is not the case?
You could sell this revit importer as a seperate extension. It would help people a lot.
The work we do as a tier 1 infrastructure construction company often requires the ability to import Revit models, but we don’t need to do all the extra stuff that comes with a studio license. A lot of our work is importing the design models then chopping this up into build sequencing / method stages. We don’t need to produce glossy finished result images with pretty flowers etc. … we work with big concrete blocks and mounds of earth that only require a very basic colour pallet to help us how all the shapes, blocks, etc. come together.
So I’ve yet to be convinced as to how a Studio License would add more value to what we do, but am convinced that having Revit import capability will be useful.
As a workaround I haven’t tried, you should be able to upload the .rvt file to Trimble Connect, and download it from there as a Trimbim file that can be imported into SketchUp.
