Uploading different IFC files and see them together

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  • Objective: I would like to make a comminucation between different coworkers. each designer would like to upload an IFC file and as a result I would like to merge all IFC into one file by something like a project base (or any other suggestion from you) and see a unique view as a combination of three colleagues on different part of the project site.
  • Issue: How I can make this merging happen? how I can define a base and add ifc files on top of each other by that base point? Also one of my IFC files could be uploaded and converted but I can not see its objects in the viewer.
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Hey @ghazaleh.eslami ,

You can create empty models for each IFC file and upload them directly to Speckle. They will get converted into Speckle objects. You can then overlay them in the viewer.

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Speckle extracts an origin point from the IFC files which is then used as a reference point to overlay multiple models.

Can you please share the IFC file with us?

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This explanation is perfect. thanks a lot for your solution. I will try and come back here if I need more support.

For sharing the IFC file I need permission.
But what I can say is that maybe there is a problem with numbers.
Do you know how long numbers can be handled by speckle?

this is a screenshot from BIMcollab ZOOM:

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You can send a DM if you don’t want to share it publicly.

AFAIK, long numbers can be handled. @jonathon knows better.

My suspicion is it is a Zoom Extent issue. Can you change the camera to Orthographic and see if it changes anything.

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Thanks a lot for your answers.
What else I found is that the IFCElement of the objects in this IFC file are “ifcproxy” which I think it is not defined in IFC schema in Speckle.

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Hmm, that may be the case. In order to confirm, we need to see the IFC file.

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Many thanks for your answers.
Could you please let me know what does it mean an “empty model” that you mentioned in your first solution?
When I have a new stream and branches it is empty and I need to import IFC to the branch.

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We recently announced that we will be renaming our concepts: Streams → Projects, Branches → Models and Commits → Versions.

I meant a new branch if you use the old terminology.

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Great. Thanks a lot.