Tools to move IFC geometry from global coordinates to local

Open the Model Placement Editor dialog from ‘Add Palette’.
There’s several ways to use this, the simplest maybe just to use ‘Pick Origin’ and click on the (survey?) point which you may know is designated as the local coordinate origin…
As said, there are some issues with this though in rounding errors, so YMMV.
Another way to move the model is to use the Simplebim excel templates, if you need to do the changes to a number of files or repeatedly.
I have sent in a request to Simplebim to offer a transformation matrix approach which would probably offer the best precision (we come across those often with pointclouds etc…).


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