Steel construction: BOM Revit is pretty scarce in providing meta-data to Inventor through the import process. Other than color and geometry, there is not much information transferred. Especially with steel construction elements, it is tantalizing to see that although the profile of beams is standardized and many are identical in size, Inventor fails to recognize these as identical in data sets such as the one shown in the image above. How to increase the intelligence of the imported data? The answer is: by using the Inventor API. The macro (available in the handout material), provides More representative browser names with less browser clutter BOM quantity (total cut length of beams) Better bitmap preview in BOM Note that creating preview bitmaps is a slow operation. You would need 1 hr to fully 500 Revit components with the macro. Steel construction: default behavior Let’s step back a bit and examine more closely what the default import results are. Browser names Bland (generic) names BOM No length information All have QTY =1 No thumbnail preview Generic names in the browser No preview and useless unit quantity information Parts list/Balloons In the drawing environment, we have a similar story. No grouping of similar parts whatsoever. Steel construction: after applying macro Here are the changes the macro offers.
Steel construction: BOM Revit is pretty scarce in providing meta-data to Inventor through the import process. Other than color and geometry, there is not much information transferred. Especially with steel construction elements, it is tantalizing to see that although the profile of beams is standardized and many are identical in size, Inventor fails to recognize these as identical in data sets such as the one shown in the image above. How to increase the intelligence of the imported data? The answer is: by using the Inventor API. The macro (available in the handout material), provides More representative browser names with less browser clutter BOM quantity (total cut length of beams) Better bitmap preview in BOM Note that creating preview bitmaps is a slow operation. You would need 1 hr to fully 500 Revit components with the macro. Steel construction: default behavior Let’s step back a bit and examine more closely what the default import results are. Browser names Bland (generic) names BOM No length information All have QTY =1 No thumbnail preview Generic names in the browser No preview and useless unit quantity information Parts list/Balloons In the drawing environment, we have a similar story. No grouping of similar parts whatsoever. Steel construction: after applying macro Here are the changes the macro offers.
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