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When exporting to IFC, you may find that Revit feeds the Survey Coordinates (or shared coordinates) to the resulting IFC file, when in fact you want it to be based on Project Coordinates. If your proj…
Revit-exportlayers-ifc2x3-forCOBie.txt: This is an updated export layers table file. It is intended primarily for COBie, but can be used for any export. It would replace your existing export layers ta…
Interesting, sounds easy… anyone using this?Constructivity Server does not rely on any external database or web server; it stores all data within a folder structure as native IFC files and index files…
Download it here, quick summary below: IfcOpenShell is now our preferred render engine new feature in this release is the “model checking” capability. We implemented model checking in two places: befo…
via https://twitter.com/3dbyggeri/status/463610401788530688…
There are a couple of options: Use BCFzip format to Export viewpoints from Navisworks 2014 and into Revit camera views (ortho or perspective) Use Kiwicodes Bonus Tools or BIM One Clash Sphere Generato…
“The BIM data from the Revit model can be imported or exported using a BIM data file format or using other formats. The available file formats are SDNF (Version 2.0 and Version 3.0), CIS/2, IFC, and P…
Often, it is. But if Project Base Point has ever moved in the life of the Revit project, then it probably won’t be. Revit Zero (sometimes called the Internal Origin) affects things like FBX and NWC ex…
I was approached by Reza Hosseini, who is currently completing his Phd, to have an interview about virtual construction. It is embedded here:Open embedded content: www.youtube.com Some of the topics c…
Ryan Schultz is working on Revit–>IFC–>Revit translations, and he has created a open source page as a focus for test and sample files. Here is the link: https://github.com/theoryshaw/IFC_Roundtrip Int…