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Hi all,
My name is Fred, I'm not a Revit expert, I'm pretty much self taught.
I'm trying to work on a project that somebody else generated on Archicad. My task is to just make the render out of this project which is already finished.
I received a IFC file of the project that I can open on my Revit 2017, I can see the projects clearly with no defects, but I don't seem to be able to modify anything on it, like I said, I just need to render this project, so I don't need to change details and or dimensions. But still, it's kind of odd that I can't do almost anything at all with the elements of this small project.
The only information I need to be able to see is the materials that this guy assigned to all the objects. But when I go and render everything is plain grey, including all the windows, they're all just grey surfaces.
I looked around the forums, tried some options I read, such as saving it as .rvt and open it up again, but still, I seem to able to only change very little in the parameters. And even if I'm able to change the "material/finishes" in some of this "anonymous" object that compose the project, everything will still look plain grey when rendering.
When I accepted this rendering job I thought it would have been a relatively easy task to just work on the renders on somebody else Archicad work, but it doesn't look that simple anymore.
Am I doing something wrong on my side when importing this file? Or is the problem perhaps at the other end? I already told the Archicad guy about this issue and he sent another IFC that, he said, "should now work", but I don't see anything different...
Thanks in advance to all the community for the help.
Regards,
Fred
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check phase.. all existing phase families render gray.
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Hi Oldtexas,
Thanks for your reply. Can I ask you some directions on this?
It looks like all the objects are all on Phase 3 on this project that i'm importing and the Phase filter is set to Show Complete.
From here, what do I need to do in order to be able to "see" and render the objects that are part of this project with the materials and properties that the guy on Archicad assigned to them?
Fred
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I'm also starting to tthink that maybe the problem is at the other end, but not knowing myself Archicad at all I don't even know what to ask about the IFC export process to this other guy?
I have seen screenshot of renders he had done on archicad on this same project so the materials are there, but perhaps they're not on the exported IFC?
Fred
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I'm also starting to tthink that maybe the problem is at the other end, but not knowing myself Archicad at all I don't even know what to ask about the IFC export process to this other guy?
I have seen screenshot of renders he had done on archicad on this same project so the materials are there, but perhaps they're not on the exported IFC?
Fred
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