combine multiple IFCs into one IFC

[Ning_Zhou]

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.

[Aaron.Lu]

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%3aifcnavi...

Those are ways I can think of for now.

[Ning_Zhou]

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.

[Aaron.Lu · Accepted solution]

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

[Ning_Zhou]

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.