Export to IFC

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
July 12, 2013
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We have the requirement to work in a BIM environment, by exporting our 3D models to the IFC format (Industry Foundation Class)

We have both WF4 and Creo2.0

How can I export my assemblies to IFC?

2D Drawing

HamsterNL

Author

18-Opal

Is nobody working with IFC?

Any PTC employee willing to comment?

R

rvanderaa

1-Visitor

Hello Teun,

This year I investigate the possibilities to convert a Creo Elements Direct Modeling model to IFC. If you been interested send your mail adres to CreoApps4You@outlook.com so that i can send you some information.

Best regards,

Ronald.

R

rvanderaa

1-Visitor

Hello Teun,

Because you told me that you not interested in any commercial software I did not answer. But if anyone whants to know if there is software to read IFC to native Creo Elements objects you can see a result of this below.

A model loaded in BimSight.

The same model converted to Creo

Off course it is possible to export Assemblies to IFC object. If you are familiar with BIM you must ask youreself what is the level of detail (LOD) i want to use. In the most common software where you can export a model to IFC there is no possiblity to chance the LOD for the several parts in the assembly.

Patriot_1776

22-Sapphire II

I'm down with IFC (Yeah, you know me!).

(Sorry, a little "rap" humor from the early '90's)

HamsterNL

Author

18-Opal

Frank, you are "naughty" (by nature) 😉

Patriot_1776

22-Sapphire II

Hah! SOMEONE get's it!

J

Jamesbala26

1-Visitor

I have tried exporting my model with the inbuilt IFC exporter. But I could only open it in revit as a single block, which was a big concern. After a lot of research, I tried a trial version of bim-dex plugin. It helped the IFC file maintain the classes and hierarchy inside revit as per my client's requirement. Hope this helps your use case too!