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Launching Revit Files in Prospect

  1. Open your file in Revit.
  2. Create a 3D view of the portion of the model you would like to view in VR. IrisVR only loads the geometry that is visible in the 3D view, including crop boxes.
  3. Navigate to Add-Ins > View in VR 
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  4. Select your custom 3D view from the popup window.
  5. Enjoy your file in VR!

Materials and Textures

Prospect currently supports the diffuse color, diffuse texture, image fade, transparency, and tint of Autodesk Materials, as well as physically based materials introduced with Revit 2019**. To see an accurate preview of how your materials will appear in IrisVR, open up the Revit Material Browser and navigate to the "Appearance" tab.

Note: Material settings not currently supported in-VR include: reflectivity, self-illumination, bump-maps, and relief patterns. 

**To ensure Physically based materials from Revit 2019 are exported, the following boxes should be checked prior to export:

 Manage tab -> Materials -> Select desired material -> Graphics tab -> Shading dropbox -> Check "Use Render Appearance"

Layers

Similarly to DWG or DXF, Prospect uses the American Institute of Architects Standard to map Revit Categories and Subcategories to layers. Toggling layers is an excellent way to focus on specific aspects of a design file such as MEP or landscaping.

Object Properties 

All type and instance properties available within Revit are accessible in VR.

Use the inspect element tool to access this BIM metadata for any geometry within your project. (BIM metadata available for Revit files exported via plugin with Prospect v2.4 or newer) 

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Links

Prospect supports linked Revit files and will include them if they are part of the Revit 3D view.  Please note that Prospect works best with local files, so if you are having issues loading, try to detach from central and save locally.

 

Detail & Textures

Prospect supports a level of detail in-between "Medium" and "Fine" and brings in materials similar to how they would appear in the "Realistic" setting.

 

Supported Versions

  • Revit 2015 - 2019

To learn about additional features, check out this section of our knowledge base.

Notes:

  • Revit LT does not support third party plugins and as a result users of Revit LT are unable to run Prospect on their computers.
  • RPCs not fully supported

 

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