Revit: Rhino Workflow

Explore practical BIM strategies to create architectural design elements in Rhino and export them to Revit for easy review.

Introduction

• Rhino and Revit working together
• What you should know
• Why use a Rhino to Revit workflow?
• Using the exercise files

1. Rhino to Revit

• How to model a Rhino file for a Revit import
• Geometry that Revit might not import
• Real-world error example
• Validating your Rhino geometry for export
• Importing, linking, and file types
• Linking a Rhino site context
• Topography: Rhino to Revit
• Linking a Rhino massing model
• Importing a Rhino building model
• Creating a Rhino model for a Revit family, part 1
• Creating a Rhino model for a Revit family, part 2

2. Revit to Rhino

• 3D export views
• 3D export views clean up
• Exporting your 3D view
• Cleaning up a Revit import in Rhino

3. Rhino.Inside.Revit

• What is Rhino.Inside.Revit?
• Getting started with Rhino.Inside.Revit
• Live exporting with Grasshopper
• Cleaning up Rhino layers
• Live importing with Grasshopper
• Drawbacks of Rhino.Inside.Revit

Conclusion

• Next steps