An Autodesk Revit user would refer to these as Categories. In ARCHICAD this is controlled with ‘Element Classification’ in Tags & Categories. Hopefully some of this shared knowledge will prove useful to others.Įvery 3-dimensional part of a model has an element classification. Many issues related to interoperability are to do with poor implementation by the user (and that’s not a criticism of users), but for many ARCHICAD users they don’t have a ‘BIM Mechanic’ to help them keep their template up to date.
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This research however is important to understand how our models are exported and get the best results using IFC. In many ways the work shared in this blog series is the kind of work our users don’t see from our central BIM team. Hopefully this work will help Brian and other ‘BIM Mechanics’ to move forward with their IFC understanding and create more ARCHICAD users focussed on robust open workflows.
#CURTAIN WALL ARCHICAD 18 FULL#
It quickly turned into a full research piece as I delved deeper into the information. I thought I could give Brian a little more information to help with his understanding so thought i’d write a quick post. Brian is just taking his first steps to understand IFC and it is great to see someone else really trying to explore IFC with a similar testing process to how we develop our understanding. The post itself though was inspired by Brian Spears ( a fellow ARCHICAD user, from CJMW Architecture in the USA who posted a piece entitled “ ArchiCAD to IFC Export Tests” on his blog. (Since I drafted this post Nathan Hildebrandt of Skewed has also written a post about the concept of Mechanic vs Driver. All the user needs to do is follow the guidance we set out to use the templates correctly. They feed back minor niggles which we fix and we also introduce improvements as the tool improves. As a ‘BIM Mechanic’ I maintain and finesse the templates our users utilise on their projects.
#CURTAIN WALL ARCHICAD 18 HOW TO#
Anyone who owns a car needs to know how to drive it but doesn’t need to understand in the inner workings of its engine.
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I was once described as a ‘BIM Mechanic’ which is very apt when it comes to this post. We will look at the relationship between Components and Types in this post. There is a fair bit of detail to understand so the information is split into three posts.
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However this kind of understanding is important if you are setting up templates for ARCHICAD users. This series of posts are highly technical posts and not something I would expect users to understand in depth, although I know some of our power users will try and follow them. In an earlier post we looked at the requirements of COBie for both Components and Types.