Exporting Material's thermal properties from Revit to IFC through Dynamo

[arghavan.A]

Hi Everyone,

I am working wit Revit 2018, and it is unable to export thermal properties of materials through IFC2x3. I wanted to ask if anyone has a solution for exporting this information to IFC through Dynamo?

I want to use the ifc output for energy simulation.

Many thanks.
Arghavan

[Adrian_Esdaile]

Hi Arghavan,

Have you tried using the plugin version of the IFC exporter? it’s available from IFC 2018 Exporter.

This plugin greatly enhances Revit’s IFC export capability.

[arghavan.A]

Hi!
Yeah I’ve used that. But it was of no help.
Revit can export object styles and names to IFC, but the thermal properties are not exported. I put a photo below to show it. You can see that IfcMaterial #407 is showing the name of the material that I created, but nothing about the rest of properties are exported.

[Andreas_Dieckmann]

Have you tried exporting them via custom pset? Works well for most elements, not sure about materials, though.

[arghavan.A]

No, can you please give me a hint how can I do that?

[Johannes_Meiners]

Use this setting:

this is the information in IFC:

It´s Revit 2016 German, but it should work for you also

[arghavan.A]

Thanks!!! It worked. I never checked that option!
Now, I have to see if my Energy Analysis tool also read this data automatically through IFC.

[daniel.petrin]

But… to export another material parameter…

any idea?

[Mauro.Cattaneo]

or this properties… before to export IFC how can we schedule these properties?

[johan_van_mol]

I am also looking for a similar answer:

• Can the Material Keynote (or the Material Mark) be exported to IFC?
• [OR] can it be copied (with Dynamo) from the material properties to an element parameter?