Hi - After importing IFCs created on two different platforms that do not use stories (Tekla, and Bentley), how do I get all imported elements to automatically reassign themselves to the nearest appropriate ArchiCAD story according to elevation?
Currently, on a 7 story project, engineers data is importing with all elements mapped to only one or two stories, even though the elevation of each element imported is correct
The result is that floor plans show the wrong things, or nothing at all, depending what story you attempt to view
No process I can come up with is successful in globally filtering/selecting elements by elevation for remapping to a new story;
Not all elements are visible from a given plan view, so no global filtering seems to be possible in plan
meanwhile, 'Find and Select' does not work in the 3D window for filtering elements according to heights in relation to 'current story', Presumably, current story is deemed to have no meaning in 3D? Don't want to have to manually type in absolute elevations to filter by, story by story - too slow and error prone. This approach certainly no good for a 50 story building!
The 'Filter and Cut Elements in 3D' command only allows filtering by elements already mapped to correct given story - so no applicable solution there.
Need a solution that is very quick and fool proof, that can be used every time updated an IFC comes through, for a building of any number of stories, without lots of manual drudgery and associated risk of typos each time etc
PAUL KING | https://www.prime.net.nz
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