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The Bentley Revit Plugin allows you to save your Revit models in a way that lets you open them up in MicroStation or Bentley Building products, retaining most of the Revit properties information from your Revit model. The Plugin is designed to help teams working in a mixed Revit/Bentley environment to be able to get Revit models into a MicroStation based design workflow for coordination purposes, interference detection and similar.
The Revit Plugin is NOT designed as a way to convert an existing Revit model to Bentley's Building applications with 100% fidelity, so that further modeling work on the model can be continued in Bentley Architecture. While the plugin translates Revit elements into Bentley Building BIM elements, making it possible to manipulate walls, doors and windows with Bentley Architecture tools, the nature of the translation between the Revit system of objects and Bentley BIM products will NOT give you 100%, 1:1 match of everything that may have been modeled in Revit.
The Revit plugin installs a small extension into Revit Architecture 2008© and another small one into MicroStation/Bentley Architecture. Getting to use a Revit model in MicroStation/Bentley Architecture is a 2 step process:
1) The extension in Revit Architecture lets the user export a Revit model with the necessary support files to open the model up in MicroStation and retain most of the Revit object information. There are no other MicroStation applications needed to export the model out from Revit Architecture. There is no MicroStation license needed to export the model from Revit Architecture.
2) From MicroStation/Bentley Architecture the user can open those exported files, process them and get a model with the Revit object information attached to the models elements.
The Revit plugin works with both plain MicroStation and Bentley Architecture. The differences are:
· When working with plain MicroStation, the geometry of the Revit model is translated into plain MicroStation solids and all Revit properties are attached to the solids as MicroStation EC data.
· When working with Bentley Architecture, the geometry of the Revit model is translated into BIM forms like walls, slabs and columns and the windows and doors are translated to that they maintain their perforators. In addition the Revit properties are translated as DataGroup and parts and family information and put onto the Bentley Architecture BIM objects. Any object that cannot be translated into a Bentley Architecture BIM object is translated into a MicroStation form and receives the Revit properties as EC data on it.