Clarification at Exporting from Etabs to Revit: Analitical 2D shells from etabs gets exported as 2D analytical panel in Revit

[GJoe]

Hello everyone, GJoe here!

• Objective: I want to export 2D shell elements from etabs as 3D walls in Revit

• Issue: I want to know if exporting 2D shell elements from etabs as 2D panels in Revit is the correct behavior. If so, how to export them as 3D walls?
  

  
  
  
  

• Speckle link: https://app.speckle.systems/projects/5530897926/models/2f4d9b6f24

[bjoern (Björn Steinhagen)]

Hey @GJoe!

That is the correct behavior. Communication between Revit and ETABS is on the analytical level. This is also the tidiest way to ensure a clean analytical model / 1:1 with Revit.

For your issue at hand, after receiving your ETABS shells in Revit, you could use the Analyze -> Analytical Automation -> Analytical to Physical for Buildings automation:

This way you’ll get your volumetric represenation while preserving the analytical definition(s).

Let me know if this helps!