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Open IFC models and save as RVT

Would be nice to have a task for opening IFC models and saving as an RVT. This would come in handy for projects where architects are working in ArchiCAD or other applications outside of Revit where the native files for Revit would be IFC. Manually doing a conversion of IFC to RVT can take some time for users, so automation of this type of work will benefit projects where external parties are working in applications outside of Revit and we are using Revit. 

This could be something along the lines of updating the Model Upgrader task to look for both RVT and IFC file types, or a new task altogether. 

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This is a little-known feature of the UpdateRevitModelFromDisk task...

It will look not just for RVT file(s) in the FROM folder, but also IFC files. It will open the IFC file and do a Save As with a Revit file.

It hasn't gotten much attention since it was put in the code 8 years ago (we thought that there would be more people that were interested in this kind of workflow). But let us know if it works for you!

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AB

Thanks Matt,

I've tried using this task type, but it is having errors when pointed at a folder of IFC files. It's giving an error message (below). This is set up with Scope = Project & From Folder containing 3 IFC files

3 model(s) could not be added/updated in the project. An unexpected error occurred: ArgumentException: fileName
Parameter name: The file is of an incorrect type.: See journal file
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