Overview

Beside working on the IFC specification development, the Model Support Group also supports the IFC implementation work by providing guidelines, tutorials and examples. In collaboration with software implementers, organised in the Implementation Support Group, MSG also publishes implementation agreements and offers implementation issue resolution.

IFC implementation support material is also provided by others, see www.ifcwiki.org, and particularly the developer page, for more information.

Implementation guidelines published IFC Implementation Guide IFC File Header Implementation Guide ifcXML Implementation Guide (specific guideline for using the ifcXML, the XML document format for delivering IFC datasets)

Implementation agreements available A list of implementer agreements are developed and maintained by MSG in collaboration with the Implementer Support Group ISG to support the ongoing implementation and certification activities. NOTE: The implementer agreements had previously been published at the former separate web page of ISG and they are currently moved to this official technical website of buildingSMART. A list of implementation issues is maintained in an Issue Database for implementation specific issues and requests. NOTE: Access is provided to all members of buildingSMART that sign up for the issue database.

IFC Imple Guide Summary

The IFC implementation guide has been written to provide a first reference for software developers that what to implement support for IFC within their software. It dates back to the IFC2x publication in 2001 and had been updated continuously since then.

the IFC implementation guide provides an overview on IFC implementation with particular focus on the requirements of the IFC coordination view the IFC implementation guide does not supersede the particular definitions and implementer agreements of an IFC model view definition see the IFC header implementation guide for additional guidance for the header section on an IFC file.