This application seamlessly replaces the built-in IFC capabilities of Revit 2015. It contains enhancements to functionality and defect fixes provided by Autodesk and Open Source contributors that did not appear in the initial shipping version.
Revit IFC 2015 contains up-to-date improvements on the default IFC capabilities of Revit contributed by Autodesk and our Open Source contributors. While this app is not necessary for IFC support, it is recommended that users that depend on the quality of their IFC download this app and keep it up-to-date, as new enhancements and defect fixes are added, For more information on IFC, please visit the buildingSMART website or the Revit wiki.
This application seamlessly replaces the built-in IFC mechanism and so the users do not have to perform any additional steps while importing or exporting their models to IFC format using Revit UI.
The installer that ran when you downloaded this plug-in from Revit Exchange has already installed the plug-in. You will need to restart Revit to activate the plug-in.
To uninstall this plug-in, exit Revit if you are currently running it, simply rerun the installer by downloading it again from Exchange, and select the 'Uninstall' button, or you can uninstall it from 'Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features' (Windows 7) or Add/Remove Programs (Windows XP), just as you would uninstall any other application from your system.
The source code for this application is available on open source, at the SourceForge project : http://sourceforge.net/p/ifcexporter/home/Home/
This application is a good complement to the IFC Exporter UI client app, also available on the Exchange store. However, it is not required to get the latest version of that application when installing this application. Nor is it required to use this alternate UI when getting the latest IFC.
The third party toolkit we use to write out IFC files has a limit on the maximum size of IFC file it can create. While there is no absolute metric for this, in practice it is about 250MB. The toolkit provider is aware of these issues and is working on expanding and eventually removing this limit, and we will be tracking their progress on this issue.
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