Change Property language on export (IFC)

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am working on a BIM software witch will import data from Revit, we then analyse those data (mainly Revit properties) to provide synthetics information to the users. We import those data by an IFC file. 

The problem is that properties are translated depending on the language set on Revit UI, here is an example:

This quite problematic for accessing a specific data, we have to know the translation of each property name. I know you can get the actual language with that but I don't want to force the users to change its language settings. 

So I am wandering if there is a way to force the language of those properties during exportation with Revit API, or if there is a way to access the translation of those properties somewhere for automatic translation purposes.

Thanks in advance !

Gwendal Broudin

[Revitalizer]

Hi,

there is a LabelUtils.GetLabelFor(BuiltInParameter) method.

You could iterate over each BuiltInParameter and get the related translations.

Starting Revit with a language parameter (ENU, DEU, etc.), you could do that for each language.

Having done this one time, you have all you need to create a translation table.

Revitalizer

P.S.: after doing so, please do not hesitate to share it on the forum 🙂