Revit Export and import into Trace?

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I know it's possible, but how practical is it to export a file from
Revit and import it into Trace 700 for calculations? AND, how do you do
it?

-Jason

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Hi Jason,

In my opinion you can never really assume that all of the export
information that you extract from Revit is going to directly import into
Trace without you having to "tweak" things after you import it. In
order to do it, you basically have to export your infomation to a gbXML
file. Once you save that somewhere, you then import it into Trace as a
gbXML file and it should ask you what information you actually want to
import.

I don't know if this helps you, but this has been my experience.

Mike Casella

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Revit: export gbXML
Trace: File/Import gbXML

I've imported files to see how it does, but I haven't actually used it yet.
It seems to ignore exterior shading, which is the main thing I was hoping to
get from it.

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One of my problems is getting it to recognize the room names so I can
distinguish which room is which when it's imported into Trace. It just
names it from 1 to whatever. How do I get it to recognize the names
from the revit file?

-Jason

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There are a couple changes for TRACE with respect to gbXML. In version 6.2.2 and later, you have the ability to use the Name entered in Revit as the space name in the TRACE file.

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TRACE does not import external shading.

Eric Sturm

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