Hi everyone!
I am exporting the IFC4 file from Revit but sometimes I get the columns defined differently. The columns are mapped differently and there isn’t a unified representation of the columns.
I was wondering if anybody could help me understand how element representation from Revit works and lead me to a good example in C# on how to extract the start and end coordinates of the columns in an IFC4 file.
IFC can store geometry in many ways. It may store it as a mesh, or as a parametric extrusion, or as a primitive solid, or something else entirely.
If you can speak Python instead, this is a good crash course to get you started: https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=IfcOpenShell_code_examples - there is a guide on how to get a dev environment set up within minutes. It’s all free software and works cross-platform, and an extremely powerful and capable toolkit.