i-model plug-in for revit 2019?

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...

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/

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. 

Interesting. The feedback I get is that the Revit imodel exporter plugin is pretty bad. Which version do you use and do your Revit users need to do a lot of mapping to get the export results usable in Aecosim?

I assume you get architectural and MEP content from Revit.

We use the imodel exporter to get Bridges out of Revit into OpenRoads Designer and Microstation. We've been using it for years and it has done a great job. As Duncan said, it is the best exchange tool we have found regarding attached data and portability.

I'm not worried about attaching the i-model 2.0 format, but actually exporting from Revit using the i-model Bridge. Do we now need to engage a software developer to build a bridge to export from Revit moving forward?