ACAPI_Automate() to save IFC file

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I have compiled the Automate_Functions example of the AC15 DevKit. While most of the example functionality indeed does work, the "Save as Ifc" menu item triggers the following error message "Error in APIDo_SaveID (Ifc): ???" a little further investigation shows that the error code that is returned is -7003 or simply GSErrCodes::Error. I badly need to programmatically export IFC files from Archicad, therefore any help would be tremendously appreciated. Does anyone else experience this problem? I am using the win64 version of AC15. Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Thomas

[Akos Somorjai]

Hello Thomas,

BimThomas wrote:
Hi all,

I have compiled the Automate_Functions example of the AC15 DevKit. While most of the example functionality indeed does work, the "Save as Ifc" menu item triggers the following error message "Error in APIDo_SaveID (Ifc): ???" a little further investigation shows that the error code that is returned is -7003 or simply GSErrCodes::Error. I badly need to programmatically export IFC files from Archicad, therefore any help would be tremendously appreciated. Does anyone else experience this problem? I am using the win64 version of AC15. Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Thomas

This turned out to be a bug in AC15. The IFC add-on was rewritten, and this feature fell through the gap. Unfortunately there's no workaround at the moment, as the "Save as IFC" functionality is not registered as a module command.

I've entered this into our bug reporting system.

Thanks for the report,

Akos

[Anonymous]

Wow that's unfortunate. Well, thanks for investigating the issue.

Kind regards,
Thomas

[Akos Somorjai]

BimThomas wrote:
Wow that's unfortunate. Well, thanks for investigating the issue.

Kind regards,
Thomas

FYI this issue will be fixed in the next AC15 hot fix.

Best, Akos