I'll contact you offline to see how we can improve the exchange.īut let me also respond here on a few points just for the benefit of anyone else reading this post. I'd be very very interested in talking to anyone that successfully shares data between consultants using these two softwares. Like I said, these are only the major issues I know about, but I am sure there are more. According to the MEP guys, pretty much all of our model gets put into the "generic model" category in Revit, making it impossible to filter our elements in their views. Every time they get a new model from us, anything wall-hosted loses its ID and host.ģ. As a result, nothing in the MEP model can be hosted to our walls, making our model essentially worthless to them. Walls get assigned a unique ID in Revit - this evidently changes every single time we send a new model and they import it. Even looks ok on their end as an IFC, but once converted to Revit, they lose data. Seems fine on our end, looking at Solibri. Walls (and probably other objects) are missing entirely from the model, once it gets converted and imported into Revit. Likewise, we have very limited control over the structural model that we get, as well.ġ. Our Structural and MEP consultants cannot use our model in theirs, and this is a major problem. Please please please PM me if you have done this successfully.Ĭurrently we have a myriad of issues, and likely more I am not fully aware of.
I'd be interested in talking to anyone that's had any success in sharing models between Archicad and Revit using the IFC format.