Batch Convert DWF to Revit using Navisworks
Sometimes you have a set of DWFs that you would like to work with in Revit. For example, you might have DWFs of site equipment, fences and trucks that would be useful for site modelling in Revit. Here…
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Better Sketchup to Revit Conversion via FormIt
Check out this excellent forum post by Tobias Hathorn, in which he describes the best workflow for Sketchup to Revit conversion via FormIt 360. Interestingly, the major steps are: Install Revit addin …
Tested: Using Able2Extract to convert PDFs to Vector information for use in CAD and BIM
Able2Extract can export a pdf to various formats: In my testing, I opened a 97mb pdf file in Bluebeam and extracted one page to a separate pdf file for conversion. I opened this pdf in Able2Extract an…
Metric Conversion Tools for Dynamo (Punto Revit)
Paolo has “managed to complete tools for conversion from internal units and metric (meters, centimeters and millimeters) for lengths, areas and volumes (LAV).” Download these and put them in C:Autodes…
Convert 3D files to Google KMZ format
You can convert major 3D File formats to Google Earth 4 format (KMZ) with ‘SOLA G2’. Supported 3D Formats Autodesk *.FBX (2006.11) 3D Studio *.3DS Wavefront *.OBJ Autodesk *.DXF Collada *.DAE Download…
Convert OBJ, DXF, DAE and 3DS to FBX for free
Updated links: https://www.autodesk.com/developer-network/platform-technologies/fbx-converter-archives Windows FBX 2013.3 Converter for Windows FBX 2013.2 Converter for Windows FBX 2013.3 Converter fo…
Converting 3D forms between other form creation tools and vanilla Revit geometry
I am deeply interested in interoperability between form creation tools, as well as workflows that allow you to translate forms between these tools. Unfortunately, there is really no reliable way to br…
Convert HPGL PLT files to DXF or DWG
This is not something you are going to need to do everyday, and probably less and less as PLT files become a thing of the past. But, if you ever do need to, here are two tools that may help: guthrie C…
Revit API Challenge: convert In-place Families to Component Families automatically
Here is what we want – you select an in-place family and click ‘Convert to Component Family‘ on the Ribbon. Through API Wizardry, the following happens without any further user interaction: The family…
Convert DWF to DWG using free tools
These steps helped me to leverage some data from a DWF file and convert it into vector data I could use in a DWG file: Open DWF in Design Review Print to PDF using CutePDF (this worked for me) Open re…