# Facing orientation of IFC doors

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/facing-orientation-of-ifc-doors/46953>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Tags:** dynamo\
**Created:** [February 18, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/facing-orientation-of-ifc-doors/46953 "2020-02-18T10:06:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niki.K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bb73d2/32.png) [@Niki.K](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Niki.K)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/facing-orientation-of-ifc-doors/46953/1 "2020-02-18T10:06:53Z")

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Hello everybody!

Do you know if there is a way to get the facing orientation of IFC doors? I already used the node familyInstance.FacingOrientation from the Bakery package, but it only works properly for Revit elements.

Thank you very much in advance

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**Author:** ![infeeeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@infeeeee](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/infeeeee)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/facing-orientation-of-ifc-doors/46953/2 "2020-02-18T15:54:07Z")

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Afaik it’s not possible, ifc doesn’t have the concept of faces and hosts. For doors there is a parameter IfcDoorStyle.OperationType, if this is filled you can read this with the regular parameterValuByName node. It’s a type parameter, not instance. This shows up as an “Orientation” parameter in Revit.

[https://standards.buildingsmart.org/IFC/RELEASE/IFC2x3/TC1/HTML/ifcsharedbldgelements/lexical/ifcdoor.htm](https://standards.buildingsmart.org/IFC/RELEASE/IFC2x3/TC1/HTML/ifcsharedbldgelements/lexical/ifcdoor.htm)

[https://standards.buildingsmart.org/IFC/RELEASE/IFC2x3/TC1/HTML/ifcsharedbldgelements/lexical/ifcdoorstyle.htm](https://standards.buildingsmart.org/IFC/RELEASE/IFC2x3/TC1/HTML/ifcsharedbldgelements/lexical/ifcdoorstyle.htm)

If you work with ifc files in revit, install the official ifc addon, if this is installed every parameters will be imported to revit. Download from the store, or from sourceforge: [https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/List/Search?isAppSearch=True&searchboxstore=RVT&facet=&collection=&sort=&query=ifc](https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/List/Search?isAppSearch=True&searchboxstore=RVT&facet=&collection=&sort=&query=ifc)