Revit and a heavy weight SketchUp model?

[ron.sanpedro]

We are doing a feasibility study on a rather large residential tower, and we need to have a very detailed context model of the neighboring tower, which we happen to have as a SketchUp model. My question is, what kind of graphic and performance control am I going to get? Can I turn of layers, change lineweights (all thin is what I am looking for), put the SketchUp link on a seperate workset, etc? Or is that only possible with a 3D DWG? Has anyone dealt with detailed SketchUp files in Revit before? Hopefully no one comes back saying this is a horrible idea, but better to find out now than weeks into the work.

Thanks,
Gordon

[ws]

DGcad has a free video clip which I found useful on importing Sketchup models
http://www.dgcad.com/Revit9-Detailing.asp see Lesson 1

[dtownsend]

I'd try the 3D DWG option out.

In the past we have had trouble with SKP files in Revit...especially if you plan to render...unless you want an all white building.

It may have improved since I tried it out in v9.

Play with it and let us know how it goes!

[truevis]

I suggest putting the SKP into a family and a workset and trying it.

[dhurtubise]

If its very complex, you might want to split your SketchUp model into multiple files and use that with worksets.