Grasshopper
Rhino to Revit
Sorry for the seasoned topic here, but all I wish to do is to add floors to my Rhino geometry. I tried Hummingbird and got it working up until the point where it exports revit language to a separate excel sheet. I have attached my workflow, but I am wondering if there is an easier way. The reason I am doing this is because my model is formally complex and will need tapered floors. It is not easy to do natively in REvit for me.
thank you
johnnyUtah05
Thanks for the tips. I will keep searching. hummingbird seems like a useful tool if I can get it to write the revit language. As for the tapering, I believe you are both right about the families. Will check out geometry gym as well. Thank you
Apr 2, 2014
johnnyUtah05
Dennis, I will ask my professor when I see him and see if he knows a solution for the tapered floor. Thank you for the tips again.
Apr 2, 2014
Jacob Gay
Erik, I think Jon's suggestion is the route I would take - if you can live with the objects being generic models instead of native Revit floors you could conceivably use Jon's Geometry Gym to replicate the geometry you generated in Rhino/GH into IFC and send it that way. Of course they can still look like floors in your model by changing the visibility/graphics for them, you just couldn't do some of the hosting and attaching of walls and things that only work with native floors. When you think about it in those terms - hosting and attaching - you start to understand why Revit slabs have the limitations that they do.
Alternatively, the simpler way of accomplishing this is to bake the floors into rhino using GH as a closed polysurface, then export them as a .dwg with acis solids. Link or import those into an in-place family in Revit and they could visually behave like a floor, if not functionally.
Jake
Apr 9, 2014