IFC and Revit Realistic visual

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I got a revit native family in my project, and I changed the material color.

I exported the revit project to IFC file.

It looks like this in Revit Project (Consistent color and Realistic Color): 

I faced the following realistic visual color problem when I open the IFC file and link ifc file.

The consistent color is working fine for both case.

how does it work in Revit to get the same and correct material for IFC file?

Please help... thanks.

Open IFC File (Realistic visual)

Link IFC File (Realistic visual)

[FGPerraudin]

Hi Wanshen,

You need to cut your problem into smaller bits.

When Revit links or opens an ifc file, it produces a revit file out of it anyway in the same folder than the original ifc file.

So, what you should first do is open the link (right click >open onto the link in the browser)

I think the link it will display just fine.

Which means that it is your main file that doesn't display the materials the way you want.

What happens very often is that Revit imports the materials a first time, they have the right name but no photorealistic attributes. it displays as default grey material. When you update your model, Revit doesn't update the materials, it just updates the geometry.

The fix is very simple, you need to delete the link, purge your materials and reload your link.

That way it will reload the materials.

Or you re-set your materials in your main project library, one by one...

Hope this was of help,

François