r/Revit

I built a free, open-source Revit → Blender renderer (BlendIt). Sharing the render modes — including linework that exports as editable vectors. Demo in Comments
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I built a free, open-source Revit → Blender renderer (BlendIt). Sharing the render modes — including linework that exports as editable vectors. Demo in Comments

I got tired of the setup and the subscriptions around getting a decent render out of a Revit model, so I built BlendIt — a free, open-source pyRevit extension that sends your active 3D view straight into Blender and renders it, all from the ribbon. No Blender setup, no material wrangling.

In the comments is Autodesk's Snowdon Towers sample run through a few of the modes: clay, pen-and-ink, sepia sketch, a flat colour pass, blueprint, and clean linework. The line modes are the part I'm most into — the linework comes out as vectors, so you can open it in Illustrator and keep editing (line weights, labels, the lot).

It's MIT licensed, runs on Blender, and works offline. Windows only for now, and it's genuinely v1, so I'd really value feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas from people in Revit day to day.

Repo: https://github.com/lewismconte/blendit

Happy to answer anything about how it works.

u/louietheguy — 1 day ago
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Doors in Model Group in Linked Model

Hello r/Revit!

I am a BIM Manager for a MEP firm, and I am having trouble with a project. We are doing the design for an apartment building. The architect has set up the individual units as Model Groups. I have the architectural models linked into our MEP model, and I can see pieces of these model groups. However, I am not able to see the doors & door swings unless I turn on 'Reveal Hidden Elements'. Additionally, when they are visible after turning on 'Reveal Hidden Elements' the doors do not have the usual green lines of something that had been manually hidden.

Things I have already checked:

  • Doors are set to visible in the View Template, and Revit Links are set to 'By Host View' in all settings.
  • Doors do not appear on Coarse, Medium or Fine Detail Level
  • There are no view filters applied

Any thoughts? I am guessing that this has something to do with the architect including them in model groups, but thats just a guess. And other elements from those model groups are visible (the walls and furniture and kitchen and plumbing fixtures are all part of the same model group), so I am quite confused.

Here are a couple screenshots, please let me know if you need any other info.

https://imgur.com/a/WcJNkez

Thank you!!

EDIT: Resolved! The doors were nested in something else and their visibility was being controlled by the 'Detail Items' visibility. Thank you!!

u/a_fiendish_thingy — 3 days ago
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how to cut linked structure with wall in revit 2025

is there any way to cut walls from linked beam/column on revit 2025..i used youtube to try with dynamo but all the methods cannot be used for 2025 version so please help

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u/Agile-Cause-307 — 4 days ago
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Hide cut pattern of one material in plan view

I'm messing with filters and not sure if this is possible. Wall assmebly: CMU block, brick veneer. Is there a way to hide cut pattern of ONLY the CMU block layer in certain View Filters? The cut pattern gets distracting in certain views and I'd like to apply this to only Particular View Templates?

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u/Hairygreengirl — 4 days ago
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SEND HELP - THICK CUT LINES ON PDF EXPORT?

Super thick line weight on cut walls + floors in sections and elevations when I export? No view templates, tried toggling between thick and thin lines and exporting, I can send screenshots to anyone who can help

Please help surely this has to be such a blaringly obvious and simple fix I'm too much of a fool to figure out!

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u/Comfortable_Copy_985 — 4 days ago
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View is black/white

Can someone help? I clicked something wrong on my keyboard and now both 2d and 3d view is black and white/wired. Does not work to changer visual style or detail level.

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u/Lower-Employer4010 — 5 days ago
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Does anyone else use the term "Revit farm" for laying out groups of families in a project file as a library?

For example Autodesk's railing and stair sample file I would call a farm. I've known them as this for about 15 years and now I'm wondering where the term originated, because I can't find it anywhere when I Google it.

And yes farms are probably obsolete now with content catalog.

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u/goandrightawrong — 7 days ago
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Best Practices for File Management?

So I'm working on my first major Revit based project.

currently I date each major change with a Save-As with new date. Revit also makes multiple backup saves...

I have 125 project files for ONE project (15GB) - Should I keep just the milestone of dated file of each project (ie, none of the Revit backups, they're pretty irrelevant now I guess)...

Should I purge all the old files of unused families? Are there other ways to minimize their size?

I've never worked with files this large for projects, so my typical best practices of saving EVERYTHING are no longer working LOL.

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u/mawopi — 11 days ago
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Spec-ing a local file server for Autodesk/Revit

We're replacing our server, and given the price of RAM & Storage these days, I don't want to buy more than I need (but also don't want to underbuy just to save a few bucks).

As I understand it, all model processing (including fly though rendering - we use Enscape) happens on the local workstation, and the fileserver that stores all of the data only needs to have fast storage and network. However, I don't use the software at all, so would like to gather recommendations from others before we spec and replace our server. We've currently got 40 workstations, and our server currently has a 20GbE connection to our network switch.

Some random thoughts:

  • For the new server, I'd like to bump the connection to the network to 40GbE to give as much bandwidth as possible to each workstation.
  • SSDs where possible on the server, but we have a large data store so it just isn't practical/affordabe to make it all SSD. I'm thinking of a RAID1 SAS/SATA SSD array for the server OS, a smaller "current projects" RAID10 array with NVMe, and a larger RAID10 HDD array for completed projects.
  • I don't see any necessity for a discrete graphics card in the server
  • As it is primarily just a file server, I don't see the need for anything but a middle-of-the-road processor, either.

What do you think, anything I'm missing?

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u/EmicationLikely — 13 days ago
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Rhino.Inside.Revit

Hey everyone, are there any good videos/channels or websites where I can learn rhino.inside.revit? My company wants to look into implementing this plugin into our workflow so I’d like to learn as much as possible before proposing anything. Thanks!

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u/Legitimate_Skirt1028 — 12 days ago
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Point cloud issues

Hey yall,

Never had this happen to me but im trying to bring in cloud data from recap . I import and in revit it's invisible. I can click on screen and it does pick out the model but no visuals are visible ?

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u/omnigear — 12 days ago