Mullions don't come in as a mesh object (Revit to Blender 4.0)

[Bold_Theory_Design]

Hi Guys!

Saw a similar issue in a Revit to Rhino post but having trouble when importing a model that has curtain wall mullions into Blender. The mullions don’t import as meshes like all other objects. They ‘display’ correctly but you can’t do anything with them like add materials etc. Not sure if its a bug or if something just needs to be changed so they import as meshes rather than just displaying as them.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Jedd (Jedd Morgan)]

Hi @Bold_Theory_Design
Please see my response to another user with a similar question:

Editing Streamed Rhino Blocks in Blender

This is a really good question, one that others have asked, and are likely to ask again, so I thought it deserves a complete response. As a bit of background. Rhino/AutoCAD blocks, Revit families, Sketchup components, Unity prefabs etc, all represent instancing of a group of many objects. Blender’s equivalent to this is Instanced Collections. These are maybe not the most common form of instancing in Blender, however, they are a pretty close analogue of Rhino Blocks and the other types of …

Hopefully it should clarify how we receive Revit Family Instances in Blender.

If you want to receive them as regular meshes, you should use the Receive Instances As: Linked Duplicates setting in the receive options.

[Bold_Theory_Design]

Awesome will try that, thanks for your response!