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FME "Inside" Revit?

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  • March 4, 2022
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dbaldacchino1
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This is related to FME and BIM. This article describes how you can take geometry in FME and pull it into Dynamo so that it can then be generated in Revit perhaps: https://community.safe.com/s/article/integrating-fme-into-dynamo-for-revit


However I think this workflow is very limited and probably not something we would really use. Why? Because we can import DWGs directly into Revit. Sure, there might be things you'd want to do in Dynamo so perhaps this example is just not indicative of a true use-case. What would be REALLY useful is having FME run inside Revit, like McNeel is doing with Rhino, which allows Grasshopper to control things in Revit (https://www.rhino3d.com/inside/revit/1.0/). It would be great to have the ability to create geometry or read data in FME and place associated geometry or families etc. in Revit, either completely outside of Dynamo (which is a painful software to use compared to FME), or at least via more simplified FME nodes in Dynamo. Lots of room for improvement exists in this area! Ex:

  • Read external data, create geometry (FME can do all this), then place families in Revit based on some sort of mapping
  • Just like Dynamo is able to control Revit via the API, maybe have a set of transformers that can actually do the same while there are both an active session of FME and Revit running (the idea of "FME.Inside")
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danilo_fme
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  • April 7, 2022

Its a very interesting Idea.


kennyo
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  • November 2, 2022

I think this could be a great idea. We have alrady made an add-in for Revit with an external company, and the add-in allows you to import a zipped folder, which unwraps inside of Revit perfectly and georeferenced, without actually having an rvt file nor 3dm file, but data can easily be used as that afterwards. #lacalveracatrinaday