Graphics Programs Reference
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Figure 5.17
Querying imported layers
3D Data Types
This section is easy—well, it should be anyway. You are, after all, importing
and manipulating 3D data in a 3D application. What could possibly go
wrong?
It all depends on the type of data you want to import or link into your
project. Let's start with the easiest—a Revit project file. Surely there cannot
be anything difficult with that? What it boils down to, however, is the
other
users and how they have set up their projects. If you are lucky, they have a
lot of experience and, most important, have communicated how the model
is constructed to the entire project team.
Much also depends on what you, as an MEP user, want to get out of the
project, so let's see.
Revit Project File
Working with external consultants can be very trying at the best of times.
Think back to times when all you had to worry about was whether lines had
been drawn on the correct layer and whether they were either by layer or
by block. Yearning for the old days? Life did seem simpler then, but was it
really?
Getting a set of drawings from the architect meant doing some preparation
work such as running the odd AutoLISP routine to change layers, linetypes,
and color. Then you had to make sure the plans all had the same User
