IFC Improvements
ARCHICAD 20 has improved its current IFC-based workflow with new geometry and data sharing possibilities for the reference model concept.
GRAPHISOFT has been developing IFC – an open-source platform for OPEN BIM collaboration – since 1996. We continue our pioneering commitment to IFC, supporting the latest IFC standard version and its major subsets (called “Model View Definitions”).
ARCHICAD 20 supports the import and export of the Model View Definitions, which are developed for multi-disciplinary 3D mode-exchange workflows. The latest IFC4 Model View Definition introduces two separate directions for coordination between different disciplines:
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ARCHICAD supports the import and export of triangulated face-set geometry representation - a requirement of IFC4 Reference View.
The Renovation Status property is now shared as a standard IFC property, and Tags and Categories data of Building Materials are shared as standard IFC Material properties.
Bodies with multi-color surfaces (for example, walls with different inside and outside colors) can be imported and exported, with the colors correctly maintained.
ARCHICAD’s IFC function also correctly exports element colors currently displayed in your model - for example, the colors defined by Graphic Overrides, Renovation, Revision, and Mark-ups - so you can share this information with other consultants/applications.
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The new ARCHICAD Element Properties (see User-Defined Element Properties) are mappable as IFC scheme properties.
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