IFC compatibility testing and analysis of BIM tools for the facility management purpose

• Main Authors: ChinChia Chen, 陳俊嘉
• Other Authors: Chien-Cheng Chou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76853212904520840528

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 土木工程學系 === 102 === The Industry Foundation Class (IFC) standard is a file format used for exchanging Building Information Model (BIM)-related data between various software applications in the Architecture / Engineering / Construction (AEC) industry. Past research has showed that use of commercial tools cannot truly converse a BIM object into the IFC standard. Hence, neither importing data into BIM from an IFC file nor exporting data to an IFC file from BIM can be successfully performed among current BIM tools. The fundamental problem is about the representation of a 3D geometry object. This research is an updated version of what have been done by Pazlar and Turk (2008), that aims at creating simple 2D, 3D and basic building elements in BIM, exporting these objects into IFC, analyzing the exported IFC file structure and contents, re-creating theses simple objects on plain IFC files, importing these files into BIM to see the compatibility issues. It can be expected that the results of the research can help facility management software be aware of the loss of information in IFC.