Thanks, Laz... That's what I was afraid of.
This is our industry's next big challenge... full interoperability. Some poor devil spent hours, days, WEEKS making all those toilets and sinks on Toto's site, and none of us can use them. Darn shame.
Talk with you guys soon... back to work while there's still work!
This is our industry's next big challenge... full interoperability. Some poor devil spent hours, days, WEEKS making all those toilets and sinks on Toto's site, and none of us can use them. Darn shame.
Talk with you guys soon... back to work while there's still work!
I am really starting to wonder how much effort it would be to create such a translator. I don't know if Revit API allows it.
But I believe GDL is much more capable than what you can do in Revit Families parameter-wise. So based on my knowledge of Revit, I think it could be possible to convert family parameters to GDL parameters.
I see one thing that may or may not be a tough thing: Revit can create all kinds of forms with its modeling tools. There are similar commands to some of them, like Extrude, Tube, Ruled but if that does not work GDL can create forms out of nodes, edges and planes programmed in GDL. This is how most DWG/3DS stuff gets generated into GDL.
The big question is: can this geometric info be extracted since RFA is non-public format. Maybe the Revit API answers whether this is possible or not.
If we could have a decent RFA to GDL converter (most Revit Families are rather simple compared to GDL Objects such as Doors/Windows), this whole manufacturer problem would be solved because they would create the RFAs and these could be easily converted to GDL too.
So I keep dreaming...
But I believe GDL is much more capable than what you can do in Revit Families parameter-wise. So based on my knowledge of Revit, I think it could be possible to convert family parameters to GDL parameters.
I see one thing that may or may not be a tough thing: Revit can create all kinds of forms with its modeling tools. There are similar commands to some of them, like Extrude, Tube, Ruled but if that does not work GDL can create forms out of nodes, edges and planes programmed in GDL. This is how most DWG/3DS stuff gets generated into GDL.
The big question is: can this geometric info be extracted since RFA is non-public format. Maybe the Revit API answers whether this is possible or not.
If we could have a decent RFA to GDL converter (most Revit Families are rather simple compared to GDL Objects such as Doors/Windows), this whole manufacturer problem would be solved because they would create the RFAs and these could be easily converted to GDL too.
So I keep dreaming...
TMA_80 wrote:Does it seem odd to anyone else that Bentley is supporting Bradley (via .rfa files), but Bradley doesn't think there is enough interest to support Bentley (or Archicad)?
Something interesting (Source;: Shoegnome) , Maybe Graphisoft is working on a similar thing :
Screen shot from responses to a July '13 webinar Q and A.
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