Overview of Exporting

Of equal importance to importing external data is the ability to export Revit data for use by others. This section will examine various processes for exporting data from your Revit project to other formats. To achieve your desired results when exporting, remember that exporting from Revit is essentially a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) process. For example, exporting a 3D view will result in a 3D model, exporting a floor plan will result in a 2D CAD file, and exporting a schedule will result in a delimited file that can be used in a program such as Microsoft Excel.

We will first review the process for preparing a set of files to be exported. This method is similar for almost all exports and will be referred to in ...

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