Any word on when this will likely be available?
just in time for 2020 no doubt!!
Hi Duncan,
I received this response to my SR regarding this "The direct Revit iModel plugin appears to be dead. "iModel bridges" are the means to transfer files from Revit to iModel henceforth".
That worries me as we need to use Revit 2019 for some current projects and no one here knows anything about I-model bridges and there is not much documentation out there as to how to implement it...
Regards,
Mark
OpenRoads Designer 2023 | Microstation 2023.2 | ProjectWise 2023
Mark Shamoun said:I-model bridges
Re-branding?
Hopefully, the Revit to imodel export would be improved. Interesting aside that you would get better results if you export to Rhino first via DWG for architectural elements.
Bentley has accumulated a number of Revit export tools (imodel exporter, ISM publisher, RFA-Interpreter) in addition to the dwg and the 'Kind of OK' IFC tools. Amazing how negative people are about Bentley products!
If the new bridge app will consolidate things, it would be a step forward.
Looks like a completely new implementation for i-model 2.0. Sounds great, but how do we use it now for project delivery?
https://imodeljs.github.io/iModelJs-docs-output/learning/imodel-bridges/
Thanks for the info gents.
As you say though Mark, sounds great but how do I use it now. And how is it going to help me? I don't need any bells and whistles at the moment, just need a simple and robust way to get geometry from revit into microstataion. I can go via ifc, however, idgn's are much better
Mark,
I think that you are supposed to be able to Ref attach the i.model 2.0 using the Ref dialog box. Something that was demo'd in a recent OpenPlant SIG. In this respect, it should not be too different from the way .ism works.
Duncan,
Do you export to idgn and get usable results, regularly?
Dominic,
It is something that up till now I have found extremely useful for coordinating between Aecosim and Revit. We have requested that revit consultants export information as idgn for a number of projects
I find the idgn format produced from revit to be far superior to ifc. Retains more information, graphically better and much lighter to work with. Interestingly I have had bigger issues exporting to idgn from Aecosim than from revit.