You can incorporate a
Trimble® SketchUp® design into a
Revit project to provide a starting point for the building model.
Trimble® SketchUp® is a general purpose modeling and visualization tool.
Revit uses building information modeling (BIM), in which building elements understand their relationship to each other.
When working on a design project, you can use both products to leverage the unique strengths of each. For example:
- If you want to model an initial design pass or quickly model a single element, start with
Trimble® SketchUp®. Later, use
Revit to refine the design.
- If you want to design entire building masses and then associate real building elements to them, use
Trimble® SketchUp® for the design phase. Later use
Revit for the detailed planning phase.
To use a
Trimble® SketchUp® design in
Revit, you can import a SKP file from
Trimble® SketchUp® directly into
Revit. As an alternative, you can use
Trimble® SketchUp® to export a DWG file, and then import that DWG file into
Revit. You could also
link a SKP file to the
Revit project, instead of importing it.
To incorporate a
Trimble® SketchUp® design into a
Revit project, use this general process:
- Use
Revit to create a family.
- Import the SKP file into the family.
- If you created the family outside the project, load the family into the project.
When
Trimble® SketchUp®files are imported into family files. The workflows are the same as when imported into project files with the following exceptions:
- Imported geometry is not able to be exploded.
- Non-uniform scaling will preform better when importing to a family resulting in more accurate geometry.
- Energy analysis function may not work with families containing imported
Trimble® SketchUp® geometry.