Hi Trevor,Will FBX 2009 support reading the Revit ElementID and use it to find associated geometry, or vice versa, in other FBX-enabled applications? (Even better, the whole property set).If the ElementID can be carried over, then it can be used as an extension point for numerous integrations on FBX such as database-based. I'm actually thinking of ...

Thanks for the advice Shawn! Will try it out.

Hi Shawn,I asked the ADN (Autodesk) support and I was told that FBX is used internally to transfer the model to the Mentalray rendering engine. Probably the FBX exporter is somewhat of a side effect of this. The main target is compatibility with the new 3DS MAX 2009 and Motionbuilder (makes good sense from their sales viewpoint). I would also ...

I have tried to export FBX from Revit Architecture 2009 for use in XNA (2.0).I can also get the WinForms Content Loading sample to properly load and display its own supplied content (Cats.fbx, Cylinder.fbx etc). However, FBX files exported from Revit Architecture 2009 do not load. The error is: Error Code: -1 encountered when initializing FBX file ...