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GeoToCAD™ for Autodesk® Revit® User Guide

March 2018


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Contents:

Welcome to GeoToCAD ............................................................................................................................. 3

Requirements and Installation .................................................................................................................. 3

Getting Started .......................................................................................................................................... 3

Functionality ............................................................................................................................................. 4

Get Surface ............................................................................................................................................ 4

Export to ArcGIS .................................................................................................................................... 6

Uninstallation ............................................................................................................................................ 9

About AMC Bridge .................................................................................................................................. 10



Welcome to GeoToCAD GeoToCAD™ for Autodesk® Revit® is a technology demonstration of establishing a bi-directional connection between Autodesk Revit and geospatial platform ArcGIS® with the following functions to:

• Connect to ArcGIS

• Import the specified area of a surface on the Earth from ArcGIS to Revit

• Place a model onto the specified surface

• Export a 3D model from Revit to ArcGIS

• Preview the model on the surface on an ArcGIS map

• Save the model on the surface to a 3D PDF file

Requirements and Installation GeoToCAD requires Autodesk Revit 2017 or 2018.

To install GeoToCAD:

1. Launch its installer

2. Follow the Setup Wizard instructions

Getting Started After successful installation of GeoToCAD, on the Revit ribbon, on the Add-Ins tab, appears the GeoToCAD gallery (see Fig. 1).

Figure 1. GeoToCAD gallery

The GeoToCAD gallery has buttons:

• Get Surface

• Export to ArcGIS

• About

Both Get Surface and Export to ArcGIS launch the same Main dialog but with different functionality



(see Fig 2).

Figure 2. GeoToCAD Main dialog

Get Surface provides functionality to specify an area of a surface on the Earth and to import it to Revit.

Export to ArcGIS provides functionality to place a 3D model from Revit onto Earth, to control its appearance: move, rotate, change size, and to save it to a 3D PDF file.

About launches the GeoToCAD About dialog (see Fig. 3).

Figure 3. GeoToCAD About dialog

Functionality Get Surface To import a specified area of a surface on the Earth to Revit (see Fig. 4):



1. On the Revit ribbon, on the Add-Ins tab, in the GeoToCAD gallery, click Get Surface

Output: The GeoToCAD Main dialog appears with only Draw available.

2. In the search box, type the address of a place to be imported

3. Select the required place from a list of proposed places

4. Click Set Camera

5. If you want to see the 3D models of surrounding buildings, in the Layers group, select the 3D Buildings checkbox

6. Click Draw

7. In the Main view, clicking on the surface, specify the area for import

8. In the Quality list, select the quality of the surface

9. Click Get Surface

Output: The specified area of the surface is imported to Revit.

Note: The progress bar at the bottom of the dialog displays the current state of importing.

10. Close the GeoToCAD Main dialog

Output: The specified area of the surface appears in the Revit Main dialog.

11. If you need to direct the camera to the surface, in the Revit Main dialog, click 3D view

Figure 4. Import of a surface



Figure 5 shows an example of a surface imported into Revit.

Figure 5. A surface imported into Revit

An imported surface keeps the geographical binding information. Therefore, it appears at the same location with the same orientation when it is published back to the Earth with a 3D model placed on.

Note: At the day of GeoToCAD release, 3D models of buildings available only for the following cities: Auckland, Basel, Berlin, Boston, Brest, Denver, Geneva, Hamburg, Harvard, Johannesburg, Linz, Montreal, Philadelphia, Portland, Prague, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Vancouver, Washington, Zurich.

Export to ArcGIS To export an open model from Revit to ArcGIS:

1. On the Revit ribbon, on the Add-Ins tab, in the GeoToCAD gallery, click Export to ArcGIS

Output: The GeoToCAD dialog appears with available Add Model and Draw.

2. Click Add Model

3. This step depends on the number of surfaces previously imported to the active Revit Main dialog with GeoToCAD:

a. If there are no surfaces, the Custom coordinates dialog appears to set up the coordinates for the model (see Fig. 6)



Figure 6. Custom coordinates dialog

b. If there is one surface, the model after its export will be at the same location on Earth where the surface was taken

c. If there are several surfaces, the Surface selection dialog appears with all the surfaces to select one surface to continue (see Fig. 7)

Figure 7. Surface selection dialog

4. If you want to see the 3D models of surrounding buildings, in the Layers group, select the 3D Buildings checkbox

5. If you need to change the model appearance use these controls (see Fig. 9):

• Click on four arrows to adjust the model position

• Type a rotation value in the Rotation box and click Rotate to adjust the model rotation

• Type a scale value in the Scale box and click Scale to adjust the model size

Figure 8 shows an example of a model on a surface in Revit.



Figure 8. A Model on a surface in Revit

Figure 9. A Model in ArcGIS

After successful export of a model, Create 3D PDF becomes available to save a model with surfaces to



a 3D PDF file. Take these steps to fulfill this option:

1. Click Create 3D PDF

2. Type a file name

3. Select location on your drive for the file

Note: A 3D PDF file has only the model from the Revit Main dialog; therefore all the changes of the model appearance in the GeoToCAD Main dialog are not in the 3D PDF file.

Uninstallation To uninstall GeoToCAD take these steps:

1. On the Start menu, click Settings and then click Apps

2. In Apps & features tab, select GeoToCAD application, and then click Uninstall

3. Follow the Setup Wizard instructions.



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