IFC is the common format that enables knowledge sharing and ensures that construction data can be communicated between disciplines and across software platforms – today and for many years to come.
In Denmark, IFC has become a common file format for exchange of models between disciplines, coordination between design consultants, quality assurance, quantity surveyors and coordination of handover to building owners and operators. But for regular users it can still be difficult to keep track of the many options for managing geometry and data when exporting building models to IFC.
With this guide, we hope to make IFC more accessible to ordinary users, so that the use of IFC doesn’t require help from the office BIM manager or the construction site ICT manager…