I'm sorry but I couldn't help myself... after the RVT and DWG link into RFA post over here, I had to try linking an IFC into an RFA file in Revit 2015. Guess what? It works.
Download and extract this
Copy the IFC you want to link into the same folder, and rename it to
source RVT to IFC.ifc
Open the RFA file
It will come up with a link not found message - Open Manage Links, switch to IFC tab, select the row, use Reload From and select the file named
source RVT to IFC.ifc
(side note: this is probably the only time you will see a Manage Links dialog in the Family Environment, so I guess this is a added benefit of the current post)
It will convert and link in the IFC using the usual method.
(I'm not sure how errors are handled at this stage, such as "unjoined geometry" etc)
There you go - IFC linked into Family
All of the usual caveats apply for linking things into RFA files, as per the other post. Additionally, you can't Bind, Copy From, host elements, or Pick edges of the linked IFC. Its only real use at this stage is for modelling context.
