Hi Everyone,
I am unfortunately stuck in Revit, but have been using BonsaiBim more and more to edit / correct IFC-s produced by the exports.
Most of the projects i work on are large MEP models and, far from ideally, clients usually want full buildings contained in one File, which of course take an age to export from Revit.
What i am experimenting with now, is that i separate all the elements by levels in Revit to separate views, export each, then recombine it all in Bonsai using the Ifc Patch - Merge Project. This way i can chose to only update certain levels later, and just the separate exports in themselves are much faster.
This creates the documented problem of having duplicate containers.
No problem, since my combined file will only contain empty containers as duplicates, so i can remove these easily.
The assignment of BuildingStorey assigned to different building containers is a problem though.
After the other duplicate building containers are deleted, the storey containers that were merged in - will lose their aggregate relation.
Reassigning the correct building container to the levels take a long time though, each are processed for a few mins.
I wonder if i miss something and there is a better way to handle this? Is it possible to combine the building containers to avoid setting up the aggregation again?
(if i leave the IfcBuildingStorey containers without aggregating to any building, it will still show up fine in Solibri or Trimble Connect. But Dalux will refuse to show them.)