ENH: Fast export

[Teun1]

Enhancement Description

Some objects take ‘too much’ time while creating an IFC.
I would love the exporter to lower the export setting for those problem objects .. Or even skip them in order to save time. Just add a smart report that shows what has been done. And add a warning in those IFC objects that state what decision the Revit exporter has made.

From a Revit user perspective we need fast result. And we also want to know where the problems are in our model. So we can address them in Revit as efficient as possible. Perhaps even right after the exporter gave us a warning ánd an IFC. Waiting for a long time without knowing what is wrong with your model is frustrating and also does not help to get better results in the future.

To give another related hint: A quick way to find problem objects in Revit is adding related ID’s to an Selection Set. A user can Isolate this IFC-exporter generated Selection Set in a 3D view and off you go.

If this enhancement is a scarry thought, you can always make it an option. I think users will love it eventually.
And it will also help to improve the Revit and IFC models. Because every user learns over time what does or does not work.

Here an example what kind of things I’am talking about. But another example can be rooms. Generating a 3D IfcSpace with all it’s relations can be very hard. Even if Revit does not have a problem (yet) with that Room.
Using the (more) efficient Revit Profile family in a normal project will save +/-70minutes of calculation time.
(from 3minutes to 1 hour 11 minutes)

Revit Version

2024.0.x

IFC for Revit Addon Version

24.x.x

Windows Version

11 22H2