Saving to Industry Foundation Class (.ifc)


You can save QY CAD assembly, part, and sheet metal documents in .ifc format with the Save As command.

Use the Include IFC Properties option on the Export Options for IFC (.ifc) dialog box to add the IFC property sets found in an Excel spreadsheet to the IFC file during export. You can use the Browse button to specify the Excel file that contains the property sets.

QY CAD delivers $:\Program Files\UDS\QY CAD 2022 \Preferences\Translators\IFCProperties.xlsx to use as a template for adding IFC property sets.

The template includes a series of sheets that contain information needed to add the properties. The first sheet, named Instructions, describes the contents of the template along with instructions for using it. The remaining sheets in the template contain the parameters for the different groups supported by the National BIM Standard committee (NBS).

Columns A, B, and C on each sheet contain property information for the separate groups. The property names are listed alphabetically in column A. Column B specifies the property value and column C specifies the data type to be used in the IFC file.

Data types supported

IFC supports the following data types:

  • IfcInteger – Defined type for simple type INT

  • IfcReal – Defined type for simple type REAL

  • IfcBoolean – Defined type of simple type BOOLEAN

    Note:

    Valid entries for this data type are True or False.

  • IfcText – Defined type of simple type STRING

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