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How to get weight quantities from Revit?

Open Moult opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

The material in Revit has a density, but the base quantities in IFC only do not include weight. Weight is pretty critical in costing and LCA. Is there any way to get this data?

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Moult avatar Nov 10 '22 04:11 Moult

Oh I'd love to get that in IFC from Rvt. If we could also export material properties, that would be the basis for LCA with IFC from Rvt. In Revit itself, it works fine: Volume × Density= weight. But getting that into IFC is a different story, especially when you consider multi layer Elements that are also not being handled well by Rvt right now...

louistrue avatar Nov 10 '22 05:11 louistrue

@Moult : for some reason I can't at you in #546 , but I was wondering if you'd take a look at that issue and offer some advice. It seems like Revit is writing out the right information and viewers aren't liking it, so I'd like to know if you think we should "fix" our export or expect viewers to correct their current hacks...

AngelVelezSosa avatar Nov 21 '22 16:11 AngelVelezSosa

@AngelVelezSosa cheers thanks for the ping! Ive responded.

Moult avatar Nov 22 '22 00:11 Moult

This issue is also reported in Jira as "REVIT-242990" and is currently in the "Open" status.

ArtemHnatko avatar Oct 13 '25 16:10 ArtemHnatko