Hi Dave,

Since the whole discipline model giving me issues, i tried to export the elements by category in separate IFC files.

Surprisingly that all translation are successful with minimal warnings and no failure.

That thing that i noticed on the Specialty Equipment category in Revit = Building Element Proxy in IFC, it exported as not a complete geometry, some parts were not showing. Any reasons for this?

Hi @daveatsafe,

Thank you for your response.

It's sad because i thought that i can simply convert Revit/IFC to gdb through FME as ive seen in the tutorials and help pages. I didn't noticed that most or all of them have ArcGIS installed in their machine too!

Anyway, ive tried your suggestion of wrting the IFC to Esri shape file but always giving me failed result!

Im still hoping that i can get this FME conversion to work regardless the restrictions, before we decided to get ArcGIS. Thing is, this BIM to GIS requirement is only required in one of our projects and we don't want to spend on something that we are not be able to utilize that much in long run.

Here's what i did,not sure if i did correctly the inputs.

Inputs:

Log Reports:

Conversion - Failed

Review using Data inspector even though Failed in conversion.

Hi @assoffthewall,

I'm sorry, but the File GDB Open API writer does not support multi-patch geometries, which is what you will be getting from the Revit and IFC readers.

If you have ArcGIS installed on the same computer, please switch to the File Geodb writer instead. This writer require ArcGIS to be present, but supports the 3D multi-patch geometry.

Alternatively, you can write to Shape file as a multipatch. This does not require ArcGIS, but does limit your attribute name length, which can be a pain with BIM data.