How to import Sketchup into Revit 2024? (99% Tested) Aug'24

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To incorporate a Trimble SketchUp layout, import the SKP file into Revit family members. After that pack the household right into a Revit job.

Do you know How to Import SketchUp into Revit?

1. Develop in-place family members in a Revit job, or produce a family in the “Family Editor”.
See Family members.

2. Click the Insert tab then go to the Import panel (Import CAD).

3. In the Import CAD Layouts dialog, navigate to the folder that contains the SKP data.

4. For Documents of Type, choose the SKP documents kind.

5. Select the documents to import.

6. Define the preferred import setups.

7. Adhering to settings is advised.

8. Colors: Maintain Layers

9. All Import Units: Auto–Detect

10. Positioning: Auto: Beginning to Beginning

11. Location at Level 1 or Ref. Degree

12. Orient to View Click Open.

You may need to do the following to see the Trimble SketchUp-based form: Switch over to a 3D view.

To improve exposure, on the View Control Bar, for Visual Design, choose (Shaded).

Click the Job Plane panel (Set) on the Architecture tab, the Structure tab, or the Systems tab. In the Job Airplane dialog, choose an airplane.

Kind ZF (Zoom to Fit) to change the attractive location to show the whole kind. If you are producing mass family members, click Massing & Website lab conceptual Mass panel.

Can you bring SketchUp into Revit?

To use a SketchUp design model in Revit Architecture, import an SKP file from SketchUp directly into Revit Architecture. As an alternative, For that, you can use SketchUp to export a DWG file, and then import that DWG file into Revit Architecture.

To incorporate a SketchUp design into a Revit project, use the following simple steps:
1. Use Revit Architecture to create a family outside the project/an in-place family within the project.

2. To Import the SketchUp file into the family.

3. Friends If you created the family outside the project, then load the family into the project.

FAQ on how to import SketchUp into Revit

How do I convert a SketchUp model to Revit?

To convert a SketchUp model to Revit follow these simple steps below.

First of all open Revit Project, and select or create a 3D view. Once in a 3D view, then select File >> Export >> DWG >> Modify Export Setup (3 dots) >> Solids >> Ensure ACIS is selected. & then finish the export.

Within SketchUp, select File >> Import (File type DWG) >>then Select the .dwg file finish import.

Result: Now Revit families become SketchUp components and are tagged to the default CAD layer name.

In SketchUp, you can treat the elements like normal SketchUp entities and manipulate and visualize them as you see fit.

Keep Note: Revit will only export what is visible in your 3D view. So please Turn off unnecessary families to ensure a clean and usable SketchUp model.

A transition of materials to SketchUp can be inconsistent and based on the export preferences you can see.

Preferences are controlled in the “Colors” tab or box in the Revit export setup.

The best method is to export by CAD Index Color & adjust the material once imported to SketchUp.

Meanwhile, import into SketchUp, press Options, and check the box for “Import Materials.” The IFC Export method is very successful at transitioning shaded materials.

Here below is an example of a DWG exported from Revit and viewed in SketchUp software.