Solution
IFC models
The model, uploaded and explored beside the drawings.
The model and the drawings tend to live in separate worlds. The people auditing the documents rarely open the model, and the people in the model are working from a different issue.
IFC files upload through the same flow as everything else and open in a 3D viewer beside the drawing set, so the geometry the consultants issued sits next to the sheets that were meant to describe it.
Currently in beta. Model ingestion is the first step towards running the same audits against the model that already run against the documents.
The model beside the set that describes it
IFC files upload through the normal document flow and open next to the drawings.
Storeys
- Level 4 · roof plant
- Level 3 · residential
- Level 2 · residential
- Ground · lobby, retail
Issued with Rev D, beside the sheets that describe it.
What it does for your team
Builders
The model in the same review
Geometry the consultants issued sits beside the sheets that describe it, in one project record.
Consultants
Metadata the drawings do not carry
Model information alongside the PDF set, so what the drawing leaves out has somewhere else to come from.
Developers
One record, model and documents
What was designed and what was documented, held together as the job runs.
Before CIM
- The model sits outside the document review entirely.
- Checking geometry against the sheets means a separate tool and a separate person.
- Model and drawing issues fall out of step without anyone noticing.
With CIM
- IFC models uploaded through the normal document flow.
- A 3D viewer beside the drawing set and its revisions.
- The model and the documents reviewed as one set.