topic Re: combine multiple IFCs into one IFC in Revit API Forum

combine multiple IFCs into one IFC

Ning_Zhou — Fri, 15 May 2015 23:02:43 GMT

is it possible?

currently i can only export each individual IFC from all Revit models (hosts and links), if i want to have one single master IFC then i have to bind all linked Revit models together and export IFC, it will be great if there's a way to "combine" each individual IFCs into one single master IFC.

Re: combine multiple IFCs into one IFC

Aaron.Lu — Mon, 18 May 2015 06:04:51 GMT

Dear,

Did you try a master Revit file and then export?
or
Did you try to merge all your models within Navisworks and export to IFC?
https://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/NAVIS/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifcnavisworks_windows64%3aen

Those are ways I can think of for now.

Re: combine multiple IFCs into one IFC

Ning_Zhou — Mon, 18 May 2015 10:17:41 GMT

thanks Aaron, so it's possible to export from Navisworks to IFC, but needs to use Navisworks API, isn't it?

any resources available to write such application, well, i'm new in Navisworks API.

Re: combine multiple IFCs into one IFC

Aaron.Lu — Tue, 19 May 2015 03:19:42 GMT

Dear,
1. is there any reason you can't do that directly in Revit?
2. this blog example reads the geometry triangles, you can export to IFC from thoese triangles.
http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2012/05/get-primitive-from-solid-of-navisworks.html

Re: combine multiple IFCs into one IFC

Ning_Zhou — Tue, 19 May 2015 03:44:59 GMT

thanks Aaron, Revit won't export to IFC for linked Revit models, that's the reason i have to find workaround, currently i have to bind all linked Revit models first.