Revit to IFC - The Ultimate Guide (with Konrad from BIM Corner)

We are going to touch on some of the following topics (and, of course, all of your questions, too!):

What is IFC and what is it used for?
Why correct IFC export is so important?
IFC export dos and don'ts
Most common IFC export mistakes
IFC export in Revit:
Mapping categories to IFC classes
Proper IFC structure tree in Revit
Exporting User defined IFC properties
IFC exporter in Revit - run through, dos and don'ts...

So sit back, relax, and let's geek out!!

Links Mentioned:

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
05:00 Introducing Konrad Fugas of BIM Corner
12:53 Why is BIM So Advanced in Scandinavia?
16:32 What is IFC?
23:00 Why do We Use IFC with BIM?
28:54 Export from Revit to IFC - Step 1 - IFC Options
34:05 Export from Revit to IFC - Step 2 - Export IFC "Setup"
41:21 Export from Revit to IFC - Step 3 - User Defined Properties and Mapping Table
51:20 Export from Revit to IFC - Step 4 - View Your Export (Solibri, BIMVision, Etc..)
58:00 What You Need to Know about Importing IFC into Revit
1:00:00 Outro

Here are some links to all of the hardware and software I use:

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Thanks for watching " Revit to IFC - The Ultimate Guide (with Konrad from BIM Corner) "

[bender]

Great job Conrad, thanks a lot for all this informations. I ve update my ifc export in Revit with latest version and it’s working really nice.

[bittorarrillaga]

I find it funny that the final export did not go the way you wanted! Classic IFC

[bevanross]

Hi guys - thanks for the insights and understanding on IFC

Q - how do I find more out the interoperability of basic geometry data from 3D DWG w ASICS solids to IFC?

Keen to move data on structural and non load bearing geometry within revit : IFC for a single digital twin seamlessly.

The commentary sounded like IFC is not great for editing or sending structural design / analysis back into revit?

I’m trying to establish best practice for residential house typology for digital twin working in cloud.

[AU-ydsl]

Добрый день! У вас в солибри есть свойство "layer" как его экспортировать из Ревита?

[eleonoraiannuzzi]

HI! What are the features of your workstation? Thank you.

[paulonascimento]

Congratulations
Very good presentation, for when one that explains how to use IFC to create schedules, in MEP area?

[dmitriiserdiukov]

And what about export of links from Revit. I mean if we want to see the whole door like IfcDoor and IfcDoor will contain three different components, for example, Door frame, Door leaf, Door handle? Is it possible?

[marie-yasminechemsseddoha]

hello, thank you for your video. I tried to get properties from REVIT in IFC with revit parameter type Yes/No but it doesn't seem to work. (all others work perfectly). Did someone already tried? thank you

[nkohlson]

Hey guys, why doesn't that mapping work with subcategorys? What am i doing wrong? Can you help me?

[yukicchi]

Thank you for this video.
I could learn how other counties dealing with IFC. I love to have someone who can discuss about this more.

My question is who is going to validate if the exported ifc is correct as handout and how.
Like you demonstrated it was not so simple and not so successful to exported Customize Pset, chooing a MVD to export from a software doesn’t guarantee it can be open as the same MVD in the other software.
Are you required to follow Customized MVD  in Scandinavia? And do you have validation tool to test what exported as ifc is desire able?

You might somehow align MVD for two different softwares but who knows if the ifc exported correctly or even the elements modeled correctly before exporting IFC!
Submitting IFC doesn’t guarantee to open as it is intended.
Especially geometry definition is impossible to align for all types of software.

I guess as the focus on IFC 5.0 is more open data focus rather than file-base so that kinda teaches me that IFC isn’t file to use to preserve data for long time just like native format for each software.

So well structured data but not file is something we all look for.

The government in Japan has totally misunderstood use of IFC, trying to use it as exchangeable data format between software, including geometry definition, while IFC4.0 DT seems dead on arrival and IFC 5 is looking for new way to say what is openBIM by developing API more to open data.

I would like to know more about ifc use cases after exporting if possible in the future.