Accurender Nxt in Revit

For those of us in the AutoCad forum thinking of going Revit, we are a bit worried about the catchUp rate of the same renderer in Revit, since the first deployment is always in AutoCad, until sometime in the further if the program goes standalone.

Are the updates in AutoCad immediately available in Revit version.
How compactable or easy is it to model in/with Revit and now import into autocad for onward rendering in AutoCad.
Will material assignment in Revit (using its Nxt version) be editable in AutoCad or we have to reassign materials all over again?

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Permalink Reply by akinlolu olugboji on August 3, 2011 at 12:27pm

I'll see what I can get from friends since I have just started my classes.

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Permalink Reply by akinlolu olugboji on September 1, 2011 at 9:42am

Import a preassigned Nxt material AutoCad model into Revit, the materials did not come along with unless there is a way to tell Revit_Nxt where to search for materials, map etc.
Camera (Views) saved in Autocad_Nxt did not come along too.

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Permalink Reply by akinlolu olugboji on September 1, 2011 at 10:00am

Open a preset 3d view for an existing revit model (sample files that came with the installation) and Revit_Nxt is grayed out. Why?

akinlolu olugboji said:

Import a preassigned Nxt material AutoCad model into Revit, the materials did not come along with unless there is a way to tell Revit_Nxt where to search for materials, map etc.

Camera (Views) saved in Autocad_Nxt did not come along too.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 1, 2011 at 10:31am

Revit Addins are greyed out if you are looking at a Perspective view.

It that's the case, switch to an Ortho view, or even a plan view, then load our "Control Panel" and then switch back to the Perspective view to render it.

Please, try that.

akinlolu olugboji said:

Open a preset 3d view for an existing revit model (sample files that came with the installation) and Revit_Nxt is grayed out. Why?

akinlolu olugboji said:

Import a preassigned Nxt material AutoCad model into Revit, the materials did not come along with unless there is a way to tell Revit_Nxt where to search for materials, map etc.

Camera (Views) saved in Autocad_Nxt did not come along too.

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Permalink Reply by akinlolu olugboji on September 1, 2011 at 11:34am

That is what I finally did.

Also I noticed that it took a while for the model to load into Nxt (about 5 mins) and render in about two mins. It took the same file and view half an hour at high settings. In Nxt the Revit materials where not render as I would have expected. Wwhat am I doing wrong?
Rich Hart said:

Revit Addins are greyed out if you are looking at a Perspective view.

It that's the case, switch to an Ortho view, or even a plan view, then load our "Control Panel" and then switch back to the Perspective view to render it.

Please, try that.

akinlolu olugboji said:

Open a preset 3d view for an existing revit model (sample files that came with the installation) and Revit_Nxt is grayed out. Why?

akinlolu olugboji said:

Import a preassigned Nxt material AutoCad model into Revit, the materials did not come along with unless there is a way to tell Revit_Nxt where to search for materials, map etc.

Camera (Views) saved in Autocad_Nxt did not come along too.

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