22 Feb 2021

Revit Core Engine now available on Design Automation for Inventor

Previously, if you wanted to export an Inventor document to *.rfa (Revit family file type) on Design Automation for Inventor then you had to export to a format that Revit understands, and then pass it to a Design Automation for Revit work item to produce a Revit family file from it.   

Now you can achieve all that directly on Design Automation for Inventor since Revit Core Engine (which is used by the BIM Content add-in) is now available on that service too.

 

Example:

You can have a look at the sample: https://inventor-config-demo.autodesk.io/

And see how this was done, refer to the source code here:
https://github.com/Autodesk-Forge/forge-configurator-inventor/blob/master/AppBundles/RFAExportRCEPlugin/RFAExportRCEAutomation.cs    

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Follow @AdamTheNagy Adam Nagy joined Autodesk back in 2005 and has been providing programming support, consulting, training and evangelism to external developers. He started his career in Budapest, then worked in Prague for 3 years and now lives in South England, UK. At the moment focusing on Inventor and Fusion 360, plus cloud and mobile related technologies. Adam has a degree in Software Engineering and has...