Monday, January 5, 2015

Turning artwork to mesh for import to Revit

This is a tutorial on making meshes for the Mesh Import app, which lets us bring meshes into Revit's project environment. This is one way of making a mesh.

The free online app, Tinkercad, lets one import an SVG and turn it into a solid.

Tutorial

Find or make an image and turn it into SVG formathttp://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-svg is an easy way to do it.


In Tinkercad, select your SVG:

Give it some parameters and click "Import":

You get this:

Download the OBJ:

Using the Revit add-in Mesh Import, import the new OBJ file:

 You get this:
Same thing in Revit with edge lines turned off

Use the art as you wish in your project:


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