VW Plants not exporting to IFC

[Rodolfo Stoltzmann]

Hello, we are working with professionals from various disciplines. The original architecture file was created in ArchiCAD and exported to IFC for the rest of the professionals to carry out their specialty work. I imported the IFC file to VW 2021 and it worked quite well. The plants were located by floors, as can be seen in the attached file. Exporting it to a new IFC takes a long time. When importing this new IFC file into VW2021 for review purposes, all plants look like gray blocks. Is there a solution to export more realistic 3D plants, so that the IFC file looks more like the original VW file? See the attached images. Thanks.

 

VW 2021 file can be download from this DropBox Link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ofs6inqzy0pf054/Paisajismo 27 de enero 2021 .vwx.zip?dl=0

 

 

 

[Marta82]

Hi, same happens to me. Did you find a solution?

[Rodolfo Stoltzmann]

Unfortunately not yet. 

[Laura Stone]

As far as I know IFC only supports modelled plants, not crossed plane image prop symbols.

I have tried using modelled plants but it makes the Vectorworks and IFC files far too heavy.

Laura

[Rodolfo Stoltzmann]

Thank you Laura, I've checked the plants from https://vectorworks.rendermall.com/?language=en and I don't like them, only trees looks good, but my project is mostly only small shrubs.

[Laura Stone]

Hadn't seen those before, I usually import things from sketchup files on 3D warehouse.  We use generic low-polygon trees for models but have given up on shrubs.  It depends what the other disciplines are going to do with them.

 

Laura