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Export mirrored links to IFC

Export mirrored links to IFC

Currently, there is no possibility to export a Revit project containing mirrored links to IFC. The elements from mirrored links will not be exported.

It would be very helpful to export the geometry visible in the 3D view, including elements from mirrored links to IFC.

2 Comments
chkrieger
Participant

Yes, that would be very helpful. Working with links in large buildings is essential for efficient planning. Changes that occur during the planning process can be transferred more securely and quickly to all instances via links. Enabling IFC export for mirrored links would be extremely helpful for the interdisciplinary planning process!

yannis_beier
Participant

This could save us hundreds of hours of work in projects using modular construction!

When planning large scale residential buildings with hundreds of apartments, we typially model every apartment type as a separate file. Those are then linked to the main building file, and those links are copied and sometimes mirrored. We try to avoid mirroring apartment types in modular construction, since it would physically always be a different type of apartment anyway. But we can't always avoid mirroring, and it can save lots of time especially during early design stages. Until IFC export is required and all the mirrored types have to be remodeled and relinked.

Not mirroring from the start is a bad solution, because it would shift a lot of work effort to early design stages, where we typically have less budget than in later stages, or in case of competitions might have no budget at all! And of course, time is a factor too.. 

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