

You can do this in the application settings of Infraworks. If you do not want to explode your FBX file, lower the detail level for building facades and other assets in Infraworks. Information how to do this can be found here: īut I want to add one additional step into this workflow. Next step is to export the Infraworks project into an FBX file, load this file into Navisworks and link the Navisworks file into Revit.

Here you can find the information how to do this: įollowing these steps you can get the city of Amsterdam in Infraworks: The basic idea is that using the Model Builder functionality of Infraworks you can select any area of interest in the world, then Infraworks will create the 3D model for you. This means you will need to add extra nodes to create the road surface.īut now with Revit 2018, you have an additional workflow: linking a Navisworks model. With Dynamo this is possible using the Flux or ELK package but with some drawbacks: roads for example will be represented by their center lines.

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