You all did a good job this week with only a few posts that didn’t show awareness of what others had written. Thanks. (only one person didn’t post at all)
Here are a couple of comments about the subject matter:
- What is an IFC? Some of you seemed somewhat confused about what an IFC is, confusing it with a program that does something.
- It’s a standard that defines objects of interest to the building industry that is intended to be useful for data exchange between programs – or data repositories for that matter.
- Why are IFC’s imperfect as transfer mechanisms?
- Those who addressed the issue pointed out many difficulties. I’d add only that:
- Different BIM vendors many conceive of the a building’s objects in a different way – e.g. is a doorknob an object on its own or an inherent part (property) of a door?
- Is a Data Repository “the answer”?
- I suggest that the fundamental problem of data exchange is still present, perhaps disguised by the fact that it’s being put in a separate database.
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