Hi, when I assign several materials as a layer set to my wall (for example brick+insulation), I can only see them in the scene --> geometry and materials tab but not in the Material Porperties tab (where you go in 7:14 mins). When I want to check the used materials in the outliner, I can usually only see one material (in my case brick but not the insulation material). But at the same time I can select the IFC material "Insulation" and all the walls are highlighted. Does that mean, the materials are assigned correctly? Or did I miss something and do something wrong? Thanks for your help and your videos!
Hi, there. Although I have the Blender file, I am not a Blender user, and I received an IFC file exported using BlenderBIM. The problem I have is that the imported category using Revit desn't come with a Material parameter which we need to use on a project. I have already added this material manually with Revit, but most of the geometry does not take any material, and the objects that do, don't seem to be fully editable when it comes to modifying the assigned material. I am not sure how to add or edit this parameter on Blender, but I can ask the 3D provider to do this. What parametric material description would you recommend to set on the IFC Object Material setting in Blender in order to have it exported and availble to use on Revit? Considering I only need to modify materials in flat surfaces, I believe that Single Materials would be enough, but I am not sure. Please advise! Thanks.
I paste in this reply from Dion Moult: Actually Revit ignores IFC materials. (Strange bug but true). Revit only inspects IFC Styles, so put your data in a style instead of a material and then Revit should be able to digest it.
@@BIMvoice Thanks. Any advice or idea on how to make Revit take and show material aspects on objects that were modeled using Blender and exported to IFC using BlenderBIM? :/
@@gaberomval I would join the OSArch chat. You will definitely get the answers you need there. Unfortunately I am not very experienced with Revit myself.
@@varkeymanu Yes, it will be available in the next release. There will be a whole bunch of IFC libraries released for Europe, Australia, South Africa, and the US.
@@DionMoult Any plans for releasing a full advanced tutorial for ifc schema. I guess that will also help in wider adoption of blenderbim. This could a paid tutorial too.
The BlenderBIM Add-on lets you see and edit almost everything in IFC. There are many things Solibri does not show (e.g. like this material browser) and Revit mostly just works with Revit data and has poor IFC support.
First and foremost it is FREE and open-source. Did you check how much a Solibri license costs? :) Then BlenderBIM is Native IFC and you can do a lot of stuff that you cannot do with Solibri. You still cannot do clash control though, but validating IFC data. And I guess BlenderBIM will become just better and better, and much quicker than Solibri is doing it.
Solibri has a free viewer and a market reputation with the AEC commercial construction industry. I’ve used it and say what you want about the cost, but when you have to provide information to a team, it does exactly what it is required to do. Also, Solibri does identify materials: It does this via colors. In short, Solibri which by the way is a BIM model checker, with a better interface than your BlenderBIM plug-in, world wide tested investors base within the commercial construction industry. Now I will tell you what Solibri does lack: The ability to transfer IFC data to a Database. Solibri can export an issues table, but not actual model data to a database or even a spreadsheet.
@@VNOYB I'm happy you like Solibri, but for anybody reading along here, feel free to try it out for yourself. You'll quickly realise that the BlenderBIM Add-on has significantly more capabilities than Solibri. The comparison doesn't make much sense :) Solibri tends to misrepresent quite a number of things in IFC, one of those is materials. For example it doesn't distinguish correctly between surface shading, diffuse shading, and style assignment vs material assignment. It's more than "it shows a colour".
@@DionMoult Mr. Moult, my words may have been too poignant, giving you the impression that I don’t believe in the formidable task ahead of the BlenderBIM team. I apologize for that. On the contrary, I believe that the BlenderBIM add on can make a positive difference in the AEC market, and the global design industry. I don’t have much time during the day, but I will watch your videos and work to provide constructive feedback from my humble experience. Thanks again for your efforts.
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Hi, when I assign several materials as a layer set to my wall (for example brick+insulation), I can only see them in the scene --> geometry and materials tab but not in the Material Porperties tab (where you go in 7:14 mins). When I want to check the used materials in the outliner, I can usually only see one material (in my case brick but not the insulation material). But at the same time I can select the IFC material "Insulation" and all the walls are highlighted. Does that mean, the materials are assigned correctly? Or did I miss something and do something wrong? Thanks for your help and your videos!
Hi, there. Although I have the Blender file, I am not a Blender user, and I received an IFC file exported using BlenderBIM. The problem I have is that the imported category using Revit desn't come with a Material parameter which we need to use on a project. I have already added this material manually with Revit, but most of the geometry does not take any material, and the objects that do, don't seem to be fully editable when it comes to modifying the assigned material. I am not sure how to add or edit this parameter on Blender, but I can ask the 3D provider to do this. What parametric material description would you recommend to set on the IFC Object Material setting in Blender in order to have it exported and availble to use on Revit? Considering I only need to modify materials in flat surfaces, I believe that Single Materials would be enough, but I am not sure. Please advise! Thanks.
I paste in this reply from Dion Moult: Actually Revit ignores IFC materials. (Strange bug but true). Revit only inspects IFC Styles, so put your data in a style instead of a material and then Revit should be able to digest it.
@@BIMvoice Thanks.
Any advice or idea on how to make Revit take and show material aspects on objects that were modeled using Blender and exported to IFC using BlenderBIM? :/
@@gaberomval I would join the OSArch chat. You will definitely get the answers you need there. Unfortunately I am not very experienced with Revit myself.
Hello. Is the IFC4 AU Library available for download. Are there other similar libraries available ?
Hi. I am not really sure what do you mean, but stay tuned, because we are working on a nice surprise.
At 5:31, you are selecting the "IFC4 AU Library" template.
@@varkeymanu Yes, it will be available in the next release. There will be a whole bunch of IFC libraries released for Europe, Australia, South Africa, and the US.
@@DionMoult Any plans for releasing a full advanced tutorial for ifc schema. I guess that will also help in wider adoption of blenderbim. This could a paid tutorial too.
Hi, what is the reason of using BlenderBIM and not solibri, revit etc.
The BlenderBIM Add-on lets you see and edit almost everything in IFC. There are many things Solibri does not show (e.g. like this material browser) and Revit mostly just works with Revit data and has poor IFC support.
First and foremost it is FREE and open-source. Did you check how much a Solibri license costs? :) Then BlenderBIM is Native IFC and you can do a lot of stuff that you cannot do with Solibri. You still cannot do clash control though, but validating IFC data. And I guess BlenderBIM will become just better and better, and much quicker than Solibri is doing it.
Solibri has a free viewer and a market reputation with the AEC commercial construction industry. I’ve used it and say what you want about the cost, but when you have to provide information to a team, it does exactly what it is required to do. Also, Solibri does identify materials: It does this via colors. In short, Solibri which by the way is a BIM model checker, with a better interface than your BlenderBIM plug-in, world wide tested investors base within the commercial construction industry. Now I will tell you what Solibri does lack: The ability to transfer IFC data to a Database. Solibri can export an issues table, but not actual model data to a database or even a spreadsheet.
@@VNOYB I'm happy you like Solibri, but for anybody reading along here, feel free to try it out for yourself. You'll quickly realise that the BlenderBIM Add-on has significantly more capabilities than Solibri. The comparison doesn't make much sense :)
Solibri tends to misrepresent quite a number of things in IFC, one of those is materials. For example it doesn't distinguish correctly between surface shading, diffuse shading, and style assignment vs material assignment. It's more than "it shows a colour".
@@DionMoult Mr. Moult, my words may have been too poignant, giving you the impression that I don’t believe in the formidable task ahead of the BlenderBIM team. I apologize for that. On the contrary, I believe that the BlenderBIM add on can make a positive difference in the AEC market, and the global design industry. I don’t have much time during the day, but I will watch your videos and work to provide constructive feedback from my humble experience. Thanks again for your efforts.