Hello, I would like to know how is the archicad connection with the visualarq elements, since I cannot fully export the elements to revit with properties, like railings, stairs, curtain walls with doors and stuff.
Hi @Leonardo_G_Pate,
There is a Grasshopper-Archicad connection which you can download from Food4Rhino: https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/rhinoceros-archicad-connection. However, this connection has got less features than Rhino.inside.Revit and that’s why we haven’t developed a Grasshopper definition for that.
If you need to export from VisualARQ to Archicad, the best way to do it is by using the IFC format (which you can use with Revit too): https://www.visualarq.com/features/collaboration/ifc/.
Anyway, I understand you cannot transfer railings, stairs and curtain walls as parametric objects to Revit using the Rhino.inside.Revit workflow for now, but is there something else you are missing?
what I miss is something that I could just send it right away from rhino to the bim software… I was reading about IFC and it is saying that it is able to export and maintain the properties. If that is so, it is better to use the IFC export than use rhino.inside in my case, no?
Hi @Leonardo_G_Pate,
One of the advantages of IFC is that you don’t need to have Revit installed. Using Rhino.inside.Revit allows you to have a live connection.
The IFC workflow keeps most of the properties but in some cases these properties don’t arrive to Revit (for example, in the case of curtain walls), so maybe you can try both workflows and combine them to get the best result.