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fail to produce meaningful host elements and may produce errors. This is a consideration for both mass
families and generic model families.

Best Practices When Importing Masses

Complete the design. Before importing a mass to Revit Architecture, complete as much of the design as
required in the design software. If you make changes to the design after importing it to Revit Architecture,
you cannot update the Revit family or project with the changes.
Level of detail. Before importing a mass to Revit Architecture, reduce the amount of detail that it contains.
For example, cornices, roof eaves, window detail, reveals, windows, casework, tessellated approximations
of surfaces, ornaments and articulation on walls, and other such fine work can be imported as separate
families. After importing the simplified mass to Revit Architecture, you can then add these details to the
walls and roofs created from the mass.
Mass floors. If a mass family imports only non-volumetric geometry, you cannot create mass floors in
Revit Architecture. However, if an imported mass family contains both volumetric and non-volumetric
geometry, you will be able to create mass floors from the volumetric portions of the geometry. (You will
also receive warnings. You can ignore those.)

Importing a Design to a Mass Family Outside a Revit Project

Import a massing study from design software (such as SketchUp) into an external mass family when you
plan to use it in multiple projects. (This is the recommended workflow.) Import the design into an in-place
mass in a Revit project when you intend to use the design in one project only. (See
an In-Place Mass
To import a design to a mass family
1 Use the design software to create the massing study.
2 In Revit Architecture, open the Revit project in which you want to use the massing study, and
3 Click File menu
4 In the New dialog, select Mass.rft, and click Open.
5 Import the file containing the design, as follows:
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open a 3D view.
New
a Click File menu Import/Link
For more information, see
on page 1308.
b In the Import/Link dialog, navigate to the folder that contains the file to import.
c For Files of type, select the appropriate file type (such as DWG, SAT, or SKP).
d Select the file to import.
e Specify the desired import settings.
The following settings are recommended:
Import Units: Auto-Detect
Preserve Colors
Positioning: Automatically Place: Origin to Origin
Family.
CAD Formats.
Importing or Linking CAD Files Using the Import/Link Command
Importing a Design as