
How can everyone work in a colabrative environment when IFC seems to be the only option?īIM is a process, not a program, so it is what you make of it. Maybe I misunderstood but I believed BIM to be the answer of managing a project from start to finish sharing information along the way, so the idea is to have an open solution? The documents binding standardisation should not refer to common file types such as IFC, which after some investigation seems to be the only answer. Autodesk I strongly recommend this be worked on for the next release. If we could just link the cad file and have it behave properly then coordination between disciplines would be alot better as they would be working from a "LIVE" model and not something that has to be exported. Autodesk really needs to make it work such that we can just link the original Plant 3d DWG model file as any other ordinary cad file. While this is cumbersome the resulting revit family you create will obey section clipping as long as the family category is "General Model".

Once finished you just need to load the family into your revit project. I will usually make sure this gets inserted as "automatic - origin to origin".

In this family you will "Insert" the cad file that you exported. Once you have done this you can open Revit and create a family. Then you need to select all the 3d content in the drawing and make it a block. If this is so my work around is to use the "exporttoautocad" command in plant 3d and then open the exported cad file and blow away any unnecessary xrefs that might have been still attached.

You are simply just trying to be able to import your plant 3d model into Revit and have your plant 3d model obey the section clip planes/depths. If i'm understanding your question correctly. You may have found a solution to this by now as this post was a bit ago but I'll give you my thoughts.
