SketchUp & Revit Workflow

Architects and designers: Discover a modeling workflow that maximizes creativity and quality. Learn how to use SketchUp for conceptual modeling and move to Revit for refinement.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you need to know
• Using the exercise files

1. Understanding How Revit Reads SketchUp Files

• What are the options with SketchUp Make?
• Preparing your SketchUp files for Revit
• Green, red, and yellow boxes
• Green, red, and yellow boxes in Revit
• Badly prepared SketchUp file
• Badly prepared SketchUp file in Revit
• Identifying nonuniform scaling
• Fixing nonuniform scaling

2. Comparing DWG and DXF Files in Revit

• DWG and DXF export options from SketchUp
• Importing DWG and DXF files into Revit
• Creating a Revit toposurface from SketchUp terrain
• Splitting toposurface and applying materials
• Replacing SketchUp objects with Revit in-place components

3. Utilizing the SketchUp 3D Warehouse

• Downloading the desk from 3D Warehouse
• Assigning layers
• Ordering the desk parts by layer
• Assigning the layers to the geometry
• Material application for AutoCAD export
• Color by layer
• Material by face or material by component

4. Understanding Revit Materials and Object Styles

• Introduction to Revit materials
• Importing the desk
• Eames Desk
• Duplicating materials
• Creating the black and white materials
• Adding material assets to a new material
• Creating the desktop material from an external file
• Creating the desk drawer material

5. Revit Massing and SketchUp Meshes

• One World Tower
• One World mass
• Completing the One World mass
• Adding the mass to the project
• Mass design options
• Using an in-place mass in Revit
• Creating a Revit mass from a SketchUp mesh
• Creating the main stack
• Slicing off the faces
• Forming the entrance recesses
• Sweeping the groove
• Sculpting the corners
• Parapet recess
• Mass floors
• Adding the mast

6. Using SketchUp to Create Site Context Models in Revit

• Site context models
• Preparing the toposurface in SketchUp
• Preparing the building height data
• Creating the Revit toposurface
• Adding buildings to Revit toposurface
• Splitting the toposurface and applying the materials

7. Revit into SketchUp

• Revit to SketchUp DWG export
• Importing DWG files from Revit export
• Revit plan vs. group from Slice
• Stair creation basics in Revit
• IFC import vs. ACIS solids

Conclusion

• Next steps