{"id":2108,"date":"2021-03-08T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camilion.dms3labs.cat\/2021\/03\/08\/measure-in-3d-with-revit\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:01:49","slug":"measure-in-3d-with-revit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/2021\/03\/08\/measure-in-3d-with-revit\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure in 3D with Revit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autodesk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Autodesk\u00ae<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revit\u00ae<\/a> is a very complex BIM software that allows you to do many things in many ways.<br \/>\nBut if there&rsquo;s <strong>one feature that has <em>always<\/em> been missing<\/strong> for this software that&rsquo;s precisely the ability to <strong>measure in 3D<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThis seemingly trivial task for some reason has not been integrated yet as of 2021 release, so the dev team at Camilion decided to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/3DMeasure\/\">3DMeasure<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n<div class=\"toc\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#what-is-3dmeasure\">What is 3DMeasure<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#starting-3dmeasure\">Starting 3DMeasure<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#the-data\">The data<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#the-units\">The units<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#the-buttons\">The buttons<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#measure\">Measure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#select-a-point\">Select a point<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#select-an-edge\">Select an edge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#copy-to-clipboard\">Copy to clipboard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3dm.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/3dm.gif\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-3dmeasure\">What is 3DMeasure<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/3DMeasure\/\">3DMeasure<\/a> tool is a plugin for <a href=\"https:\/\/autodesk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Autodesk\u00ae<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revit\u00ae<\/a> which allows you to measure in a 3D view by selecting 2 points or an existing edge.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"starting-3dmeasure\">Starting 3DMeasure<\/h3>\n<p>To start the plugin, click on the <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/3DMeasure\/\">3DMeasure<\/a> icon located in the <code>Camilion<\/code> tab, a dialog box will be displayed and you&rsquo;ll be prompted to select 2 points.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_3dm_00.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_3dm_00.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_3dm_01.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_3dm_01.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>After clicking on the second point, the dialog box will be updated to reflect the <strong>distance<\/strong> between the 2 points and the <strong>delta<\/strong> of each coordinate pair.<\/p>\n<p>To take another measurement, you can simply press <kbd>Enter<\/kbd>.<\/p>\n<p>You can click on the <strong>down arrow<\/strong> to expand the dialog box and reveal other buttons and data.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_3dm_02.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_3dm_02.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-data\">The data<\/h2>\n<p>If you expand the dialog box, you can find the following data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deltas (\u0394): this is the difference between coordinate pairs (\u0394x = pt1X &#8211; pt2X)<\/li>\n<li>Coordinates of point 1<\/li>\n<li>Coordinates of point 2<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate base used: there are 3 coordinate bases available. Changing the base updates the coordinates instantly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 id=\"the-units\">The units<\/h4>\n<p>The units and rounding are set to the project units (press <code>UN<\/code> to see your project units).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-buttons\">The buttons<\/h2>\n<p>In total we find 4 buttons. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Measure<\/li>\n<li>Select a point<\/li>\n<li>Select an edge<\/li>\n<li>Copy to clipboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are explained in detail below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left mt-2 mr-2\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/measure.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"measure\">Measure<\/h3>\n<p>The measure button allows measuring in any 3D view with 2 clicks.<br \/>\nSince this is the most used command, we designed the app so that this command will start automatically as soon as you start the <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/3DMeasure\/\">3DMeasure<\/a> plugin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left mt-2 mr-2\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/point.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"select-a-point\">Select a point<\/h3>\n<p>Say we want to query the coordinates of the base of a wall we&rsquo;re working on. To do this, simply click on the <code>Select point<\/code> button and then select a point in the model.<br \/>\nThe data in <code>Point 1<\/code> will be immediatly updated and all other data will be set to zero.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Select a point\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_3dm_03.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left mt-2 mr-2\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/edge.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"select-an-edge\">Select an edge<\/h3>\n<p>Now we want to see how long the railing is.<br \/>\nWe can do this easily by selecting the <code>Select edge<\/code> button and selecting one of the railing edges. As soon as we select the edge, the data in the <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/3DMeasure\/\">3DMeasure<\/a> dialog is updated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Select an edge\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_3dm_04.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left mt-2 mr-2\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/copy.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"copy-to-clipboard\">Copy to clipboard<\/h3>\n<p>The last thing we want to do now, is copy this data to a <code>.txt<\/code> file.<br \/>\nFor that purpose, we simply click on the <code>Copy to clipboard<\/code> button. The data has now been copied.<br \/>\nOpen notepad and press <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd> + <kbd>V<\/kbd> to paste the data.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Copy to clipboard\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_3dm_05.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"conclusion\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Having the ability to measure in 3D easily is a basic functionality that will speed up any kind of workflow.<br \/>\nTry out 3DMeasure for free <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/3DMeasure\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autodesk.com\">Autodesk\u00ae<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\">Revit\u00ae<\/a> is a very complex BIM software that allows you to do many things in many ways.<br \/>\nBut if there&rsquo;s <strong>one feature that has <em>always<\/em> been missing<\/strong> for this software that&rsquo;s precisely the ability to <strong>measure in 3D<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThis seemingly trivial task for some reason has not been integrated yet as of 2021 release, so the dev team at Camilion decided to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/3DMeasure\/\">3DMeasure<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132,192,153],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3dmeasure-es","category-howto-es","category-revit-es"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}