Dear Forum Members, are there any ArchiCAD users amongst you? I need an advice on the model transfer ArchiCAD >IFC >Sketchup. Eventually we need a gbXML-style geometry for our Energy Analysis tool (Archiphysik). We are engineers, and not architects, but most of our partners work in ArchiCAD. There is a direct plugin for Archiphysik, but it is for now too complicated to implement this kind of connection (we are a small lab and work with different architects all the time) So there are two opportunities: • either we import a 3d DWG and try to delete all the unnecessary elements (too long!) • or we import IFC and delete the unnecesassy components there.

Hello, Im a third year archi student and am trying to export a file from archicad 16 to sketchup 8 pro. I have save my file in archicad into.skp and it imports fine. Apr 15, 2016 Dear Forum Members, are there any ArchiCAD users amongst you? I need an advice on the model transfer ArchiCAD >IFC >Sketchup.

Now the problem with the DWG option is that we have thousands of little elements: like handrails, which are hard to select in SU. But here we can set the option to merge coplanar faces, which helps to avoid splitting the flat faces into triangles. In the IFC we can select the components, which are neatly grouped, but then if we go down to a single wall, it is represented with multiple triangles again My guess is that there must some options of IFC export in ArchiCAD, which would help to avoid this kind of surface splitting.

Any guess on the latter? Option 3 would be to export directly from Archicad to SketchUp (works from the 3D window in Archicad). The Archicad IFC exporter has multiple configuration options, so trying a different one might help, depending on what was used in the model you got. The triangulation might be a “feature” of the SketchUp importer.

I don’t see visible triangulation when viewing Archicad-exported IFC models in Solibri or BimSight. Tinh Thuong Nhiem Mau Pdf Programs. Of course, triangles are behind all on-screen 3D computer graphics.

At heart, Archicad is a surface modeller like SketchUp and unlike Revit. Hey Anssi, thank you for your quick response! Yes, my idea was to ask if anyone already tried different IFC exporter options and what was the result. They have pretty good guidance on the help page But I do not have ArchiCAD at hand and can not really experiment with it at the moment.