Cannot export the active 3D view - Revit 2020.2 / Datasmith plugin 4.24

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I just downloaded and installed Unreal Datasmith plugin in for 4.24. into Revit 2020.2. With a model of 3 walls and a floor, I am getting the below error on export. What am I doing wrong?

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at Autodesk.Revit.DB.CustomExporter.Export(View view)
at DatasmithRevitExporter.DatasmithRevitCommand.Execute(ExternalCommandData in_commandData, String& out_commandMessage, ElementSet out_elements)

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Can you wetranfer me the revit model? We are going to look at the crash here. Please send it to pierrefelix.breton@epicgames.com with your name and description.

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File emailed.

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Same problem here, datasmith 4.24.1 and Revit 2020.2…have you got any luck to solve the issue?

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I noticed is something related to the phases, infact exporting models without them is currently working…
I’m trying with a model with 90 phases (for 4d implementation) and it’s having that problem mentioned before…

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Sent model to Epic Staff and they are looking at it. My model was very small with only 3 walls and floor added to the arch template. I used a larger model of an interior and it worked fine. Revit Interior was set to Complete with no overrides.

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send me the file as well?

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So far we found 2 causes of exporter crash in 4.24.:

  1. Views containing project base point → try turning this off in the views overrides, that might no longer crash?
  2. Exporting from the family editor → for some reason, that use case never came across our mind. Insert the family in a model, then export to Datasmith

Let us know what your findings are!

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I also have the same issue…
I can export the template models but once I load a project I get the error mentioned above.

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Hi Pierre,
it did not solve my issue, however I’m sending you the model via Wetransfer, please have a look to it, it continues to generate this error, also turning off all overrides.
Thanks

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Thanks we’re looking into it

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Ok then, we wait for your idea back!

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send me an email at pierrefelix.breton@epicgames.com so we can have a look?

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I’m having this exact same problem! Need a fix urgently :confused:

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Hi all,

If this could help : I have the same problem and I cannot export from revit to datasmith with the same export error message.
The weird thing is that I can export an older file without problem (and only one…) but every other file has the same bug. I tried filters, removing phases, materials… and that doesn’t help. I even tried to create a new file (revit 2020.2) from scratch with an official autodesk template and … same error.

The file that works on export was created with revit 2020 (not 2020.2), so I tried to convert that file to a template for a new project with revit 2020.2 and got the same export error as the other files.

I tried to revert to revit 2020 without the 2020.2 patch, but every time I uninstall it, it installs the new one (2020.2) …

Perhaps the 2020.2 update may cause this problem ?

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Revit 2020.2 Is keeping many troubles, maybe they enforced a security control and some internal changes into project files structure…

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So far we have identified the issues on our side (the exporter plugin seems to trip over some entity types and fails). Ping me privately at pierrefelix.breton@epicgames.com if you have cases where our revit exporter crashes as reported in this forum we will see how we can help out.

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I just sent you the file. Thank you for your help.

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Can you export Revit 2020.2 using the Datasmith exporter and 4.23? I am concerned because i have two projects that are now in Revit 2020 and I am not encouraged by the things I am seeing using 4.24 with them. I’ll give it a go in 4.24 but getting a bit nervous.

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Yes it’s a correct workflow at the moment, export in 4.23 and raise to 4.24 version then if you need.