Feature
IFC models
The model, uploaded and explored beside the drawings.
The model and the drawings tend to live in separate worlds. IFC files upload through the same flow as every other document and open in a 3D viewer beside the drawing set, so the geometry the consultants issued sits next to the sheets meant to describe it. Currently in beta.
Storeys
- Level 4 · roof plant
- Level 3 · residential
- Level 2 · residential
- Ground · lobby, retail
Issued with Rev D, beside the sheets that describe it.
IFC files upload through the normal document flow and open next to the drawings.
The old way
The model sits outside the document review
The auditors never open the model
The people checking the documents work from PDFs. The people in the model work from a different issue.
Geometry checks need a separate tool and a separate afternoon
So they happen rarely, and late.
Model and drawing issues fall out of step
Without anyone noticing until something is built to the wrong one.
With CIM
The model and the documents reviewed as one set
The model opens beside the sheets that describe it
IFC files upload the way drawings and reports do and open in a 3D viewer next to the drawing set and its revisions.
One review covers both
The geometry the consultants issued and the documents meant to describe it, in the same project record.
Currently in beta
Model ingestion is the groundwork for running the same audits against the model that already run against the documents.
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.