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Monday, 21 May 2018

Preview Revit files in Windows Explorer???

For those in the media, entertainment and visualisation spaces, this might be old news. However, as I have not been working with .FBX files a lot, I found something which might be super useful to quickly check how the geometry of a project or families look like; in Windows Explorer!

For both Revit projects and families, simply export the .RVT or .RFA file to a .FBX file format. Enable the Preview Panel option in Windows explorer, and voila:


One can zoom into and orbit around the preview just like you do in the software; The exception is that you do not have to open the software to do it.

Have a good week, folks!