Hi, I’ve tried to search all over for how to get one of the existing IFC export options by ID, Name or by other means in python in Dynamo. As far as I can tell it is only possible through the external IFC export add-on and it’s dll’s. i know there is multiple packages providing this, but I want to …

@jostein_olsen , i had similar issues [image] How to call a library correctly? Developers Hello, I try to call a library - ifcopenshell so the idea is to get the ifcClasses which are adressed to the elements # Phython-Standard- und DesignScript-Bibliotheken laden impor…

Thanks for the pointer, Andreas! However I don’t need access to the ifcopenshell lib, but rather a programmatic way to access the existing IFC configurations in a Revit document. I wasn’t quite sure whether or not it is possible and if so, how to proceed.

@jostein_olsen erfajo had some setting nodes, haven’t checked [image] IFC export and some other new nodes The major update release (134.4.0 and 202.4.0) includes nodes for IFX export. The nodes is build using the API from the IFC exporter 18.4....

Yep, I know. I just want to figure it out in Python. :slight_smile:

It’s possible. Not easy as the standard Revit API boilerplate templates won’t help as you need to step into DLLs usually not loaded, and the class names aren’t very intuitive… but certainly possible. [image] The Python code so you don’t have to retype it all from an image: #Python environment s…

Yeah right, that was easy… hehe :wink: Thank you so much, Jacob. A true forum hero!

How to get one of exisiting IFCExportConfiguration

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Draxl_Andreas October 12, 2022, 11:04am 2

@jostein_olsen ,

i had similar issues

http://ifcopenshell.org/
you can find here stuff…

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How to get one of exisiting IFCExportConfiguration

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