• Electrical Revit export to OpenBuildings

    Hello, I would like export an electrical model to Microstation from Revit. The Revit DGN export is not exporting in 3D, cable trays are only shown as 2D lines, fittings or fixtures are not exported at all. Is there any method to export electrical…
  • Transparency on glass to exported IFC models

    Hello Im still missing how to get transparency on glass when exporting to a IFC-model. It works with all other BIM software and its a bit embarrassing when joining BIMcoordination-meetings. Do you have a quick fix for this. I also tried it with the…
  • Maintaining materials / colours when exporting .dgn to .ifc

    Hi everyone, I'm exporting a .dgn file as a .ifc file, but when I do I lose any assigned materials (regardless of if it is by level or by individual element). Not only that, but the .ifc file has all elements in red, regardless of the colour they were…
  • OBD update 8 - export SKP: only 2021 version ?

    When you export a SKP file it creates a version 2021 file. This is weird. A good policy will be: Export SKP -> 2018 or 2019 (or the most common installed versions or even the older version compatible with current sketchup version) Import SKP ->…
  • Importing Electrical Conduit from Revit to OpenBuildings

    Hello, I am working on a project utilising OpenBuildings (Update 6). The electrical engineer on the project has modelled conduit using Revit and I am attempting to utilise this to produce electrical layout drawings. I downloaded the Bentley plugin…
  • parametric solids to SKP -> wrong scale

    I have a model with normal solids and parametric solids. When i export to SKP (sketchup), normal solids have the good size but parametric solids are way too big. 1cm -> 2,54m wich seems to indicate a wrong unit management (i am working in meters …
  • 3D Annotation and Export to IFC

    Hi all, I need to mark out chainage along an alignment line. The final result should looks like picture. After all chainage annotation is done, i need to export the line and annotation to IFC and view them in Revit. However all lines and annotation…
  • IFC entities are case senstive or not ?

    Can anybody help in knowing that IFC entites are Case Senstive or Case insenstive. like Can we write IFCPERSON as IfcPerson (camel case) and ifcperson (small) in an .ifc file
  • Georeferencing Models to Export as IFC

    Hello Good ABD Community (or OpenBuildings....) I'm having the need to georeference my models in the WSG 84 format, and then export them as IFC files with coordinates. So my question is....how can I do that? Best Regards
  • AECOsim IFC/COBie export error

    IFC Mapping are shown in red. I guess this is because the value of the path that locates the ifc_2x3_entities.xml file is incorrect or undefined. However; I can not locate the configuration variable that should have the correct path. Any ideas?
  • Export Grid Lines and Floor Marker to DWG from a Plan Callout

    Hello Good ABD Community, I need to export to DWG some plans that I extracted from ABD, the only problem being that when I do the export I loose the grid lines and the level markers, and mostly everything that is a simbology from the Building Designer…
  • Convert Pipes to Smart Solids

    Hello Good ABD Community, I'm having kind of a problem here, the reason is that when I try to save a Building Model that contains piping information to another format (specially DWG), the solids turn into a mess. Is there a way to convert piping…
  • Concatenate Labels, Pset, Export to IFC

    Hello I would like to concatenate ArchSpace/@label and ArchSpace/@label2 on the export to IFC. In IFC_Mapping_overrides i have: TYPE Space PROPERTY_SET BIP "Area" : "IfcLabel" = ArchSpace/Area/@actualGross "RoomName" : "IfcIdentifier" = ArchSpace…
  • Stopping frozen levels exported in IFC and exporting patterns in IFC

    Hi, When exporting an IFC of a model I keep getting frozen and hidden levels exporting and being visible in the IFC, is there any way to stop this happening? Also I would like to show a ceiling grid pattern on some elements in IFC, is there a simple…
  • Extract Drawings as Independent editable 2d DGN models

    Hello Good Bentley Community Today I need your help to address an Issue I have. I have a very nice 3d model in AECOsim Building Designer, but I need to send some plans to some dudes using AutoCad (uuggghhh), anyway, I need to extract plans from my…
  • Mapping IFC and AECOsim Fields

    I'm trying to get robust IFC exports set up. When I look at the IFC EXport > Mapping Options > Map > Property Mapping, I see the attached table. I can't seem to add or change any settings (other than clearing existing entries). Is this just our setup…
  • IFC Levels

    I'm trying to create an IFC export for exchange with external consultants and I'm confused by what I appear to be getting out. Attached are screen shots from AECOsim and Solibri. I understand that the IFC will not bring materials through - hence the…
  • GBXML Export not working with Bentley Architecture

    I have a consultant that has requested a gbXML file and can not get the export gbXML to work. For a simple example I put down four exterior walls, selected Export and I get to the gbXML, but the 'Export" button is greyed and does not allow me to chose…
  • Re: 3D DGN to ArchiCAD?

    Thomas, IFC provides a 3D-model with attached building information, such as classes and attributes related to the building elements. Such information can not be added in plain MicroStation. Bentley has implemented such information on the…
  • Re: printing dynamic views

    This should work... 1) While in your sheet model choose File > Save As, giving the output dgn file a new name so you don't overwrite the original. 2) Click on the Option button to open the "Save as V8 Options" dialog box. 3) Click on the Reference…
  • Export Wall Types (or Datagroup Catalog Types and Items)

    Hi: Other than placing an individual catalog item per type, is there a way to get a nice spreadsheet of all Catalog Types and all Catalog Items within a Catalog Type with all DG Definition Properties and default selections? If there isn't a way…
  • Exporting property set from dwg to dgn

    Hello, Can we export property set definitions created in autocad-mep to dgn file? They dont appear under ''element information'' Thanks