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harryjw

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Our website just been lauched on beta testing, it provides a web-based viewer for Revit models. 

www.bimfolder.com

Please have a look, any feedback is highly appreciated!

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Beaucoupnice

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Awesome work.

Are they IFC files?

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Beaucoupnice

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Feedback - When I full screen them, they only partially fill my monitor view. See screen capture below.

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harryjw

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Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, they are IFC files directly exported from Revit 2016. Need to install the Autodak add-in: IFC 2016 (Free for subscription). Please refer to the help videos on the website.

As for the problem of partially full screen, could you please let me know the browser? The viewer is optimized for Chrome, and it works fine with Windows, Android and OS as my testing.

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I did not have the view issue that the previous user reported. Awesome site, however very similar to the recent Kubity export add in aside from the ability to filter visibilities and measure. It would be great if this could allow for plan views.

Thanks for sharing!

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harryjw

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Thanks for the information about Kubity, We'll definately have a look.

I am a full-time 3D modeller and create this website with my friends in our spare time. We're trying to figure out a better way to share the 3D model aside of the complicated Autodesk way. The current workflow is:

   1. Export 3d IFC file from revit 

   2. Upload to the server, where generate dae file and xml file from ifc.

   3. Convert xml file into datebase file (mdb), and dae file into multiple json file.

  4.  update mdb and json file to the website to display the result using three.js.

I am not sure whether this workflow could handle the 2D plan view, both ifc and three.js are specific for 3d objects. Maybe we can think about something else later.

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I think you would be able to simulate a 2D plan view via section boxes or even a cut plane associated with the IFC level data, and rotating the orientation of the view to be viewing from the top, no?

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Thanks very much for the input. We'll look into this in detail later.

We did discussed about providing level views before, but drop it mainly because:

First, BIMFolder is designed to provide a cross-platform 3D viewer, including mobile devices. Therefore, there is a limitation of size (<30MB) and number of objects (<3000). Also, it doesn't include complicated function, such as section box to speed up the model handling. 

Second, the function of section box in Threejs isn't quite user friendly, especially on mobile devices. 

Another interesting function we discussed is viewing point clouds file. We did create few test files online which workss good. However, it includes some manual work. Hopefully, we could figure out a way to automate the process later. 

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