glTF Exporter

The glTF Exporter is an Autodesk Revit plugin that allows you to export your Autodesk Revit models to glTF file format.

Core Features

• quickly export the ‘Active View’ or the ‘Current Selection’
• export by category
• export specific Revit families

Advanced Features

• Group geometry by ‘Elements’ or ‘Materials’
• Compress the glTF files using ‘Draco Compression’ or ‘Standard Compression’
• Export to glTF or GLB
• Export 2D Elements
• Export Normals with different precision levels (low, medium, high)
• Set up a default export location

Table of contents

1. Export to glTF
2. Advanced Configuration
3. Viewing the 3D Model in the default Windows 3D Viewer

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Export to glTF

Steps:

1. Open the glTF Exporter.
2. Choose if you either want to export the ‘Active View’ or the ‘Current Selection’
3. Optional: Filter the elements using ‘Rule-based Filters’.
4. Use the tree view to select the elements you want to export.
5. Optional: tweak the default configuration.
6. Click on the ‘Export’ button.

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Advanced Configuration

Steps:

1. Click on the ‘Configuration’ button.
2. Select if you want to group the meshes by elements or by materials.
3. Select the compression (‘No Compression’, ‘Draco Compression’, or ‘Standard Compression’).
4. Select if you want to export to glTF (JSON/ASCII) or GLB (Binary file format). Please note that both .gltf and .glb files may reference external binary and texture resources.
5. Select the export settings (‘Export 2D Elements’, ‘Export Normals’, ‘Precision Level’, and default export location).

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Viewing the 3D Model in the default Windows 3D Viewer

Because glTF is a standard file format for three-dimensional data, it is compatible with with many platforms and technologies, such as ThreeJS, Unity, Unreal Engine, Microsoft 3D Viewer, etc..