{"id":338044,"date":"2016-08-21T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T08:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bim-me-up.com\/?p=338044"},"modified":"2021-03-14T07:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T06:13:52","slug":"the-wonder-weapon-ifc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/the-wonder-weapon-ifc\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonder weapon IFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the first terms you come into contact with when dealing with BIM is certainly IFC - Industry Foundation Classes.<\/p>\n

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The format is developed by buildingSMART, the independent association for open standards and specifications. IFC is described as follows on the German-language website of buildingSMART:<\/p>\n

The buildingSMART data model, also known as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), is a general data schema that enables the exchange of data between different proprietary software applications.
\nSource: http:\/\/www.buildingsmart.de\/bim-know-how\/standards<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Sounds promising at first! Until the moment a planning partner calls you and says: \"I have imported your IFC from software X into my software Y and some of my windows \/ walls \/ etc. are just stupid objects! That can't be right - IFC must provide me with an error-free and perfect model in every software!\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Is that really the case?<\/p>\n

The truth is: maybe it will one day<\/em> really be that far. Today, however, we must bear in mind that IFC is a very young format and the BIM modeling tools (Revit, ArchiCAD, Allplan....) create building data models with a high degree of intelligence that simply cannot always be covered by the IFC format. In addition, each of these programs naturally uses its own form of intelligence.<\/p>\n

This diagram from buildingSMART illustrates the problem quite well: IFC 2\u00d73 is the currently valid standard, IFC4 is still relatively new and is still being implemented by most manufacturers - so we are still pretty much at the beginning of development:<\/p>\n

\"IFC-Levels-of-Maturity_Page_3-1024x768\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.buildingsmartcanada.ca\/open-standards\/<\/span><\/p>\n

The conclusion: it's generally not down to the software or the interface, but simply the discrepancy between highly parametric BIM systems and a format that still has a lot to learn. So it remains exciting \ud83d\ude09<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the first terms you come into contact with as soon as you deal with BIM is certainly IFC -...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":456275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,117],"tags":[88,20,105,37,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-338044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bim","8":"category-ifc","9":"tag-blog","10":"tag-buildingsmart","11":"tag-deu","12":"tag-ifc","13":"tag-interoperability","14":"cs-entry","15":"cs-video-wrap"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IFC.jpg?fit=290%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2lEa7-1pWk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456177,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338044\/revisions\/456177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}