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How to combine two detailed IFCs?

  1. A by Ace on 9 Mar 2022, edited 26 Aug 2022 #

    Hi everyone

    I'm attempting to create a stud wall detail, It's modelled in blender (below),

    and as far as I'm aware the IFC is alright but when I export it comes like this:

    Bolts missing, studs relocated

    I can separate the bolt and the stud walls and they individually come out correctly:

    Bolt

    Stud walls:

    But cant for the life of me get them to export to IFC together,

  2. A by Ace on 9 Mar 2022 #

    Here's the IFC file:

    If anyone has any insight into this?

  3. A by Ace on 9 Mar 2022 #

    And the isolated stud and bolt IFCs

  4. T by theoryshaw on 9 Mar 2022 # +2 votes
  5. M by magicalcloud_75 on 9 Mar 2022 #

    BricsCAD, (sorry commercial)

    import file/ import file/ ..

  6. C by Coen on 10 Mar 2022 #

    I don't understand the question,

    You want to merge these two IFC files?

    Or only get the bolt in the other IFC?

  7. A by Ace on 10 Mar 2022 # +1 votes

    Hey Coen yes, I wasn't able to import both and then export a single IFC (it would throw up an error or no error and elements would be missing), but @Theoryshaw provided a solution adding the bolt breaking the IFC link and adding the bolt as an instance type:

    This worked well ^

  8. M by Moult on 10 Mar 2022 # +2 votes

    Ah yeah you can't just 'import' two IFCs into a singles session - one session = one active IFC. So once you import twice, it's uncharted territory. I should fix that.

    Appending elements one at a type is still a work in progress but will likely appear in the project library panel when it's ready. Most of the code is there.

    If the project is complex, you may wish to use Scene Properties > Quality Control > IFC Patch > Merge Project which can merge complex projects together.

  9. A by Ace on 11 Mar 2022 #

    @Moult said:

    Thanks for this!

    There are other places this could be applicable, I'm trying this out but I'm getting this error:

    Is there something simple I'm missing?

  10. L by lukas on 17 Mar 2022 # +1 votes

    There are some typo singularities depending on wether your are on Linux or Win..

    from some old thread.. in Win you should write:

    replacing \ by / , it should be ["C://path/to/IFC2.ifc"] in win10. (path without empty spaces in the name?)

    hope this is still valid.

  11. C by camontellano on 26 Aug 2022 #

    Hi, somehow it worked before and it's not working anymore. I get an almost identical error, but cannot say where I'm missing something. Eventually you guys can help?

  12. T by theoryshaw on 26 Aug 2022 # +1 votes

    @camontellano try all / in all the inputs.

    example...

  13. T by theoryshaw on 26 Aug 2022 # +2 votes

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