How to Use the Revit Plugin

Enable and benefit from RealityConnect for Revit to sync environments, adjust quality, manage assets, and enhance your Revit project with seamless Prevu3D integration.

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Enable the connection between Prevu3D and Revit

From the top bar, go to RealityConnect -> Server Settings and Start the connection.

Features

RealityConnect Functions

Sync scan

This function allows you to bring the full environment into Revit either as a point cloud or a mesh. This will import the environment with the lowest quality level and place it using the shared coordinates. From there you will be able to leverage the Clip scan feature.

Caution

• Your projet must be saved and the connection need to be established in order to use the Sync scan.

• Don’t forget to set up your project base point according to your pointcloud coordinates system. Otherwise you will be prompted with a warning like this or may face some issues with your alignements.

• The synched scan can’t be moved considering it is using the Shared Coordinates.

Clip scan

The clip scan allows you to load a specific area at a different level of quality. You must use the Section box tool from a Revit 3D View to define the desired area. Use the Clip scan feature to improve the quality in some specific area without compromising performance.

The quality level selected will impact the loading time. There’s also some size limitation, a warning will be prompted if you are over the limits.

Note

You can do multiple Clip if desired. This give you the flexibility to load only what you need in order to accomplish your work.

Sync Revit

This feature allows you to import your Revit project into Prevu3D RealityPlan. This reduce the amount of file based operation typically required.

Once the sync is completed, you can go on RealityPlan and continue the import process. We recommend using the Global positioning.

Show/Hide Full Scene

Allow you to change the visibility state of the synched scans. It is quite useful to hide the synched scan if you did clip a specific area at a better resolution. It can be good to show it back if you want to clip another area.

RealityAssets

Load Assets

This function allows you to bring RealityAsset defined from RealityPlan to your Revit project.

Browse and pick the desired RealityAsset.

Assign the RealityAsset to the desired Revit Family

You may enable the texture of the mesh using the Graphic display option below:

Note

The imported RealityAsset will be positioned automatically with its Shared coordinates as a mesh

RealityConnect Settings

Settings

Allow you to change the application port number. We recommend keeping the default value (3000). Otherwise you would need to change the value on RealityPlan as well. See the screenshot below: