'Forge IFC model weird "shadow lines"

When an IFC model is uploaded and translated by Autodesk Forge, some weird "shadow lines" are generated and appear in the Forge viewer. These lines mostly are IFC wall elements and correspond to real walls in the model, but they are drawn under the actual model. Here is an example of such lines:

IFC model with weird "shadow" lines

Now, if I try to add another model, which should align with the first one and I set both Global Offset Zs to 0, the added model fits into the shadow lines at the bottom and not the actual model. Thus, it seems that the shadow lines are the considered to be a part of the model. Here is a visualisation of the problem:

Added model aligns with shadow lines instead of actual model

When I load the model with other IFC viewers, these shadow lines don't appear:

Other IFC viewer with no shadow lines

Thus, I guess these lines are generated during the Forge translation process. Where are these lines coming from and how can I get rid of these? And even more important, how can I align the models correctly?

Thanks for any kind of help!

EDIT: When I use legacy conversion, the alignment works! Here is an image:

legacy conversion causes no alignment issue

The problem is, that I need to have spaces and opening elements, thus I need to use the modern conversion.



Solution 1:[1]

The "shadow lines" probably are 2D representations of your building elements, and they are located on z=0.

The 3D representations seem to be located at a higher level, maybe the origin of this model isn't set correctly.

So what you see is basically a plan of your model at the correct z value, while the 3D elements are at a wrong z value. This also explains why other models are places at the z level of the 2D representations.

The IFC files would be helpful to take a closer look.

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