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Extract Revit ID List from clash report

dnaranjoSQ3AF — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:44:21 GMT

Hello everyone.

In the last few days I was trying to automatically extract the list of Revit ID of the clash report, in order to improve our coordination process and reduce the time response form our specialists, but didn't make it. (Today we area doing this manually, identifying one by one, spending a lot of time).

You know if there a way to extract this ID in a more efficient way?

Thanks.

Re: Extract Revit ID List from clash report

PatrickDavis20 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:45:55 GMT

I am not aware of a method to extract this data.

Have you looked at using the Switchback functionality with Navisworks and Revit?

Re: Extract Revit ID List from clash report

dnaranjoSQ3AF — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:51:15 GMT

Patrick thanks for your answer.

In our case (we are an architect firm that manage the project but we area not the MEP designers) we cannot implement the switchback because this process is out of our scope and we don't have the knowledge to calculate the piping tracing.

It seems that we have to do our report manually.

Regards,

Daniel Naranjo

Re: Extract Revit ID List from clash report

PatrickDavis20 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:41:12 GMT

I do not know how to create a Navisworks clash report out of the box that contains the Revit Element ID. I have not seen a way that is exposed thru the UI.

I would reach out to iConstruct and see if they have that functionality. Contact Rob Rob.gadbaw@iconstruct.com

Re: Extract Revit ID List from clash report

hmunsell — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:57:19 GMT

if you have anyone in your group with programing experience (XML, maybe Dynamo?) you could export the report to an XML file and then write something to extract the information you need. We do stuff like this in my office, I'm not a programmer, so I'm not sure how they actually program it 😊. Below is an example of the Report setting in Navisworks and where the information is in the XML to extract the element ID's from.