The Revit to Lumion Bridge exporter window will pop up. Click the “External Tools” drop-down and you should see “Revit to Lumion Bridge” listed. Once your 3D view is opened, click on the “Add-ins” tab on the ribbon. Once you have the plugin installed, open up your Revit software and open up a 3D View of a model that you want to bring into Lumion. Once the executable is downloaded, run it and proceed through the installer. Instructions for Lumion Bridge and Revitįirst of all, you need to download the plugin here. The best part about this is that it keeps your materials intact, which saves you the headache of assigning all the materials in 3DS Max or redoing everything in Lumion once it’s been imported. When you use it, you are able to export whatever 3D View you want as a Collada file, which can be imported into Lumion. ![]() This plugin becomes a tool within your Revit program. But the best workflow that I found was to use Lumion’s “Revit to Lumion Bridge” plugin. So, one possibility is to bring your exported FBX file into 3DS Max and make sure all the material assignments are proper. For whatever reason, Autodesk’s material libraries contain some information that other software has difficulty interpreting. This is a known issue with software such as Unity 3D. I am not sure why this is, but I think it has to do with the Autodesk Material libraries and their compatibility with other software. ![]() The materials of your Revit model don’t seem to transfer over seamlessly into Lumion if you do a normal FBX export. Tricks for Importing Revit items into Lumion However, I had to recently do a demonstration of Lumion 4.0 and I was running into some oddities when I tried exporting my Revit model as an FBX and bringing it into Lumion. As with any program, there are many ways you can accomplish something. ![]() This article is going to detail what I think is the best workflow of bringing your Revit model into Lumion. We have written several articles about Lumion here on our blog. Lumion is a powerful rendering program for Architectural Visualization.
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