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Can you 3D Print a REVIT file?
Written by Brian Rohrer on August 3, 2019

Can you 3D Print a REVIT file?

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I’m Dan with ZVerse, and today we’re
gonna be tackling the common question Before we fully jump in, it’s important to understand there’s a big difference between a 3D file and a printable 3d file- and so with Revit, when
you’re designing in Revit and you’re building to actual scale- to life-size
scale- that file is designed to be viewed and it’s built with the intent
it’s modeled with the intent to be viewed in Revit. So let’s say that you
have a model in Revit, and you have it ready to go and you’re ready to export
it and you’re ready to have a 3d print of that model. Revit does allow you to
export to a 3d file type, and so what we’re primarily looking at are STL files,
OBJ files, FBX files, there are some others but those are the primary 3D
files that we’re looking for, and so you take the model from Revit, you export
it to let’s say an STL file, so to look at a real world application, we’re gonna be looking at this building here that we’ve 3D printed obviously that
originally started in Revit. And you can see here again that there’s a lot of
very thin small features the signs, the mullions, the indentations of the windows, umbrellas, awnings overhangs -there are quite a few different features on here that
are very very thin, and so when the model was originally exported out of Revit to
an STL file, while we did have the 3D file, a lot of these really fine,
high-resolution details were lost- and that happens when you take the Revit
file and scale it down to a printable size. And so ultimately, what has to be
done is a designer who specializes in maybe the material, in architecture, is
able to go in, look at that native file that was exported,
identify all those problem areas, and ultimately fix them, heal them,
potentially redesign them to get the file, and ultimately get that model to a
printable state. So in conclusion, if you have a Revit
file and you’re looking to get it 3d printed, your best bet is to source a
professional 3d designer or a professional 3d design service who can
go in, do an analysis of the Revit file that you’ve exported, and either identify
the problem areas to ultimately give you a watertight 3d printable file, or to go
in identify the problem areas heal them, and give you also a 3d
printable file.

Tags: 3D Design, 3d printing, AEC, and, Architecture, file, Revit, the
Written by Brian Rohrer

1 comment

  • talal alazam has written: July 10, 2019 at 10:03 am Reply

    How give thickness to wall when convert to stl file

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