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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Revit Earth - A Google Earth Connector
Beau Turner has posted a link to check out his firm's (Avatech) new connecting application that permits a Revit building to be part of Google Earth. Check it out!
Works like a charm! I recommend stripping your Revit model down to just the shell as the KLZ file can get quite large and can take quite a while to load into Google Earth.
Seems to work reasonably well although I did see problems with the tool recognizing the difference between glass materials in a window family vs. other glass type families such as curtain walls. The tool seems to export window family glass transparency smoothly but gives opaque surfaces for anything other than window families.
Works like a charm!
ReplyDeleteI recommend stripping your Revit model down to just the shell as the KLZ file can get quite large and can take quite a while to load into Google Earth.
Seems to work reasonably well although I did see problems with the tool recognizing the difference between glass materials in a window family vs. other glass type families such as curtain walls. The tool seems to export window family glass transparency smoothly but gives opaque surfaces for anything other than window families.
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