Level 2 components visible on Level 1 floor plan - Linked IFC Revit 2016

Level 2 components visible on Level 1 floor plan - Linked IFC Revit 2016

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Level 2 components visible on Level 1 floor plan - Linked IFC Revit 2016

Anonymous
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Hi Everyone,

I've been scratching my head on this one for a couple days now. I received a background from an interiors consultant and they had unfortunately upgraded to 2017. We are pretty far along with this project, and are very reluctant to upgrade due to the text sizing issues. Anyway, the work around that I found was to export their background as an IFC and link that to our model, but for some reason the Level 2 components (furniture mostly) are appearing on the Level 1 floor plan. There is no underlay on, I've been through all the model and annotation categories, I've checked every setting in the view template that I can think of, I've removed and re-linked the file, I've re-exported and re-linked the file... I think that's everything, and I am at a loss. This is my first time working with an IFC file, so I could be missing something obvious. Oh, also the door swings are not showing up. Thanks in advance for any and all advice.

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Anonymous
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Have you checked the view range 'top' parameter in the floor plan?

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Anonymous
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I did. Thank you for reminding me. The top is at 7' 6" and our T.O. Plate for level 1 is 11', so it shouldn't be anywhere near level 2.

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ToanDN
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Can you open the IFC directly, save it as a 2016 Revit file, then link it instead?

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Anonymous
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Boom. That did it. Thank you. I had tried this before, had just hit save and got a warning saying it was saved in a "later version" or something to that effect, so I just figured I couldn't do it. Save As worked though and everything seems to be on the correct layer. Most of the door swings even showed up. Thanks again.

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Anonymous
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Open it with Revit directly you mean? 

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