CalqLearn Calq: a building from A to Z / Part 11 Exchange
Meshes and the Revit link
Bring a 3D object from SketchUp, Blender or any modeller into the library as a component, and see how a model is linked to Revit.
You will bring in a planter bench for the shop front as an OBJ, place it, and open the Revit link.
The files this lesson uses: bench.obj
01Import a mesh
Open the Finishes and furniture toolset and choose Library, then its Import tab, and choose the file (offered above): glTF or GLB, OBJ, DAE, FBX, STL or PLY. Calq reads it in your browser and shows its plan and front, its size, here 1900 mm x 600 mm x 450 mm, the units it guessed (check the size), its category and its IFC class, IfcFurniture with its IfcFurnitureType.
From SketchUp: File, Export, 3D Model, as Collada or glTF. From Blender: File, Export, glTF.
02Place it
Press Add and place, then click on the plan. The bench is now a component of this project, listed under In model, and it goes out in the IFC as furniture like any other.
03See it in 3D
Click 3D, then Fit: the mesh stands on the storey as it was modelled.
04The Revit link
Open the Bring in toolset and choose Revit. The Revit drawer links this model to a Revit file open in Calq for Revit, the plugin, and keeps the two in step: send what changed here into Revit, pull what changed there, and settle what changed on both sides.
The link needs Calq for Revit, on Windows, and the Professional plan. Every other exchange in this part goes through the open standards and needs no plugin.
