Trying to decide whether to design within Away3D, Revit Architecture 2012, or AutoCAD Architecture 2013.

I am designing a mullti-level building with (eventually) a fairly detailed interior and with animations.

I prefer Revit Architecture 2012, but do not know how interchangeable the output file types are with Away3D and how much of the design will need to be re-done if exported to a non-Revit native file type.

Output file types:
native: rvt, rfa
export: CAD formats (DWG, DXF, DGN, ACIS/SAT), DWF, ADSK,FBX, GBXML, IFC.

Anyone have any workflow experiences to share regarding the above?

Thank you,

edsager

DXF is currently the only way to combine Revit and Away in your workflow.
Tho, you could export to IFC and use the free BIM server to output as collada.
Tho, all collada’s that I’ve tested from BIM, are infested with unwanted geometries, duplicates and faulty faces.

One way or the other coming from Revit, an average house description often result in a nice monster file of 50 to 200 MB’s. Because of the POLYLINE structure and the loads of undocumented proprietary blocks.
This is of course not really web friendly.

Next Prefab update, will allow you to load a dxf with Revit tags supported (regarding id’s). To give you an idea of what you could expect. During dev, I tested several monsters from this app. A dxf of 194 MB resulted in a nice 7 MB awd with all Revit id’s respected. Parsing the original file (with +2 M lines) takes over a minute while 12 secs are enough in awd.
If you would spend time with clean up’s, (if you do not need to access each and every meshes), you can expect another 50% gain on the awd file size.

Personally I was amazed while busy looking at the many “standard” formats used in the industry, how inefficient and bloated they are…

Thank you for your response!

I eagerly await the next Prefab update.

Again, thank you,

edsager