When I said I was much more successful…
More work to be done, I guess.
ultimately the model quality will be based on the individual or company providing the model… they’re free… much like the wild west of the 3D warehouse… making “universally” good models is an expensive hobby as is properly labeling it to work within BIM. the flat tile (which is laughable) has 4 IFC layers in it… might be BIM needs an update to reflect commonly used architecture layering schemes (maybe summarize the top 3-4 as a start to avoid creating some data model which is pretty much a throwback to the Windows 2.0 information architecture days…) (there’s a reason most people don’t know anything about Windows 2.0)…
I take your point. However, my understanding about BIM is that it is a valiant attempt to make building data readily available whatever hardware or software you use. That’s a tall order in a world where not everyone uses a PC or Microsoft products. But it’s useful if you are aiming for efficiency and consistency. Why reinvent the wheel endlessly like Sisyphus going back up his hill?
If companies sign up to the concept and want to encourage specifiers to recommend their products, it’s odd that they should produce such slapdash output. And NBS is a very high profile organisation here in the UK. Mind you, I wonder whether my examples exhibit poor draftsmanship or whether someone has used some kind of translation software that is the root of the problem.
I guess we are still in the foothills of this particular Brave New World.
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A very good way to look at it and also… AutoDesk WANTS you to use Revit in as much as Trimble WANTS you to use their products. I honestly have no issue with either of those points.
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Better use the ifc manager, it will erase the triangled faces:
@SeanB Autodesk and Trimble signed a collaboration pact way back:
Therefore ( with an add-on in Revit) you can view native Revit files in Trimble Connect.
Trimble MEP holds a lot of Revit families (MEP) that sometimes have .skp file formats as well to download.
Most often, the dwg will work better, for SketchUp hasn’t got the possibility to import ifc 2x4
Doesn’t 2x3 adds up to 6?, so it should be called ifc6 IMO, I’ve never understood the people driving around in big cars with ‘4x4’ at the back. It should be ‘16’
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Unless it’s driven by a computer boffin, in which case it should be 10000 (have I got that right?).
Mike, I’m not doubting you it just seems to be always an AutoDesk conspiracy behind every issue 
I know it’s “hip” to be anti-AutoDesk on this forum but it’s right silly at times. (flame suite on).
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FWIW, as a last resort, I use a small app called Inkscape, mac or pc, that will convert PDFs to DWG files (most of the time it works).
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