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IFC export altitude

CosminF
Advocate

Hi,

I am having issues exporting an IFC file that can correctly overlap with another IFC file (made in Revit) on a 3rd party platform (Trimble Connect).

Basically, my model is offset on the Z axis by the value of the altitude (rougly 300m). 

I have tried:
- Resetting the altitude to 0 in Archicad
- defining the survey elevation to 0 and, afterwards, the correct sea level height
- trying to input the sea level height into the georeferencing parameter for ifc
- messing around with the IFC translator with all 3 variants for geometry conversion (Project origin only, survey only, both)
- read the IFC reference guide from the Learn portal.

I have still made 0 progress, the file still appears "under" the revit generated ones by the exact value of the sea level elevation..
 
And unfortunately, I am the only one using Archicad so asking everybody else to accomodate for my needs is not really on the table (altough I have asked a collaborator to export differently (without the sea level value - Project Base Point in Revit) and it overlapped perfectly instantly with my model.

Visual representation of my issues:

 

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Any ideas?

 

Operating system used: Windows


AC 27, running on Windows 10 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU64, 3.60GHz, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX1650
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Hi @CosminF 

 

Anyway (this is not an Archicad solution), as far as I know I think it is possible to adjust the IFC model location in Trimble Connect.

 

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M. Arch. Ricardo López
BIM Consultant | Project Solutions and Services | Panama
AC17-28 SPA+INT | Windows 11 | MSI CreatorPro M16 HX C14VJG, 64GB, Nvidia Quadro RTX 2000 Ada Generation

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Ricardo Lopez
Expert

Hi @CosminF 

Try setting up the Z elevation value for your Archicad Survey Point to -300m.

M. Arch. Ricardo López
BIM Consultant | Project Solutions and Services | Panama
AC17-28 SPA+INT | Windows 11 | MSI CreatorPro M16 HX C14VJG, 64GB, Nvidia Quadro RTX 2000 Ada Generation
CosminF
Advocate

Hi Ricardo,

Thank you for the reply!

Unfortunately, that also did not work..
Survey screenshots:

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and the Trimble connect overlap has the same issue:

 

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AC 27, running on Windows 10 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU64, 3.60GHz, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX1650
Solution

Hi @CosminF 

 

Anyway (this is not an Archicad solution), as far as I know I think it is possible to adjust the IFC model location in Trimble Connect.

 

RicardoLopez_0-1740755995004.png

M. Arch. Ricardo López
BIM Consultant | Project Solutions and Services | Panama
AC17-28 SPA+INT | Windows 11 | MSI CreatorPro M16 HX C14VJG, 64GB, Nvidia Quadro RTX 2000 Ada Generation
CosminF
Advocate

That is actually a great workaround - at least for my purposes currently!

Thank you!


AC 27, running on Windows 10 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU64, 3.60GHz, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX1650

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