Lately I have been dealing with IFC files on a regular basis. Quite large IFC files in fact. On average these files are taking 90mins to import into Revit.
On smaller projects, it isn’t too much of a problem to manually act on the warning dialogue boxes that pop up when elements unjoin or openings can not be created. These files though, I like to import them overnight with a few open instances of Revit so they’re ready for me in the morning.
Alas, those pesky warning dialogue boxes weren’t helping me out at all, coming into work in the morning with buttons to click and more time to wait.
There is a solution though, using scripts created in AutoIT, I no longer need to wait. Simply start the scripts and leave them running, start the IFC import and away you go. The AutoIT scripts will automatically close the dialogue boxes after a 5 seconds.
If you’re having the same problems on large IFC imports, you can download the scripts below.
AutoIT Scripts for One Box 2013
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