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Exporting to Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)

You can export Revit Architecture building modelling information to the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
file format.
About the IFC File Format
The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) file format was developed by the International Alliance of
Interoperability (IAI). IFC provides an interoperability solution between different software applications. The
format has established, international standards to import and export building objects and their properties.
IFC improves communication, productivity, delivery time, and quality throughout the life cycle of a building.
It reduces the loss of information during transmission from one application to another, with established
standards for common objects in the building industry.
For more information about the IFC file format, visit http://www.iai-international.org.
Revit Architecture and IFC
Revit Architecture provides IFC import and fully certified export based on the latest IAI IFC2x3 data exchange
standard. When you export a Revit Architecture building information model to IFC format, the information
can be used directly by other building specialists, such as structural and building services engineers.
For example, building information models developed with Revit Architecture are saved to the RVT file format.
You can export the building model using the IFC format to an IFC-certified application that does not use
the RVT file format. The drawing can be opened and worked on in the non-native application. Similarly, in
Revit Architecture you can import an IFC file, create a RVT file, and work on the building model in Revit
Architecture.
IFC uses architecturally meaningful containers to describe real-world building objects. Those containers
include parameters that have meaningful values. Many standard Revit Architecture elements have
corresponding IFC containers. These do not require any specific user action to export them. (For example,
Revit walls export as IFCwalls.) Other Revit Architecture families (such as escalators) require that you map
them to IFC containers before exporting. See
Revit Architecture makes available the following IFC-specific files to assist you:
IFC Metric Template.rte. This file allows you to create new projects that are already set to the IFC standard.
IFC Parameter Upgrade.rvt. This file enables you to upgrade an existing project to contain IFC parameters
by reading the instructions contained in the IFC Parameter Upgrade.rvt file.
IFC Shared Parameters.txt. This file contains the shared IFC parameters if you want to manually update
an existing project to contain all or some of these parameters.
NOTE It is recommended to use the IFC Parameter Upgrade.rvt file instead, for performance reasons.
See IFC-Specific Files
Related topics
Importing Industry Foundation Class (IFC) Files
1292 | Chapter 22 Interoperability
Loading and Modifying an IFC Mapping File
on page 1296 for more information about these files.
on page 1317
on page 1293.