Session 1.5
Lab: The Comprehensive Guide to Better IFC Exports from Revit
Synopsis:
IFC deliverables are becoming increasingly important in our workflows, but are you delivering useful data or just another model littered with generic elements? In this lab learn how to be the best IFC we can be.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to configure the Revit improved IFC export tool to produce improved IFC deliverables.
2. Learn how to decipher the IFC building smart resource to develop better IFC exports.
3. Discover great online resources to develop the perfect IFC translation configuration without all the hard work.
Body:
To many, industry foundation class (IFC) is a format the remains a complete mystery; a deliverable that is a project requirement but beyond that, what’s it even all about? Someone told me that Autodesk doesn’t even support IFC so why should I do it? As long as you can export to the default configuration from Revit it’s good enough right?
Well.. no.
In this lab we explore how to determine IFC classes from the BuildingSmart IFC schema documents, and then take that information to correctly configure the advanced IFC export tool for Revit as well as how to build better Revit content to deliver vastly improved IFC models to transform you into an IFC superstar.