Helix

Overview

Helix® bridges the gap between your favorite BIM tools, turning frustrating model handoffs into a smooth, integrated workflow. By tackling the challenge of transferring geometry and data between SketchUp, AutoCAD, and Revit, Helix keeps your team moving forward instead of wrestling with file formats.

With Helix, simply point to your SketchUp and AutoCAD files and watch as they become native Revit components—complete with accurate materials, geometry, and metadata. Sync changes back and forth effortlessly, so your models stay up to date across all platforms without any manual rework or lost details. Helix makes multi-tool collaboration feel effortless.

Convert SketchUp to Native Revit Models

Native Revit Categories Supported:
- Walls, Curtain Walls, Floors, Roofs, Ceilings, Pipes, Doors, Windows, Topography

Features:
- Map content by tag or material
- Expose model health warnings
- Track Model updates, where Revit model only updates if geometry changes in SketchUp

Included content:
- Helix starter families with instance parameter calculation for door & window heights and widths

Convert SketchUp to Revit Meshes

 Categories:
- Generic Model, Casework, Entourage, Furniture, Furniture Systems, Railings, Site, Light Fixtures, Planting, Specialty Equipment, Mechanical Equipment, Plumbing Fixtures, Columns.

Features:
- Keep meshes clean in Revit without additional triangulation, allowing geometry to be used for documentation and visualization.
- Create Revit materials with textures.
- SketchUp materials can be mapped to Revit materials.
- Preserving components and groups in Revit families with Smart mesh-based family instancing.

Convert Revit to SketchUp

Features:
- Optimize Revit geometry for workable (push/pull-able) output.
- Optimize Revit geometry mesh count for performance while retaining the original form.
- Convert Materials from Revit.
- Map Revit materials to SketchUp materials.
- Convert Revit levels to SketchUp planes tagged as levels.

Convert AutoCAD to Revit

Native Revit Categories Supported:
- Walls, Doors, Windows,Railings, Room Separation Lines, Space Separation Lines, and Pipes

Features:
- Find center line from AutoCAD to drive location of Revitwall and MEP families.