IFC Standard Data Conversion

IFC Standard Data Conversion

GstarCAD 2025 → What's new

As an almost necessary part of building design, the construction of Building Information Modeling (BIM) occupies a great proportion in the whole building design life cycle, and IFC is one of the most widely used BIM standards in the industry, in order to achieve more convenient collaboration and interaction with the BIM software, in the new version of GstarCAD 2024, users can insert the Building Information Model in IFC format into the drawing by executing the IFCIMPORT command, and display the BIM information and the model structure in the Properties panel and the BIM Structure panel respectively.

IFC file import

Supports importing and parsing IFC-formatted BIM information models through the IFCIMPORT command and forming tree-structured panels to display single objects.

View the BIM information of the model through the Properties panel

Retrieving and managing model information through the BIM structure panel

Demonstration of single-model structures in the form of tree-structured panels.

Expand BIM Structure Panel

BIM Structure Panel Right-click Menu

Used to show, hide, isolate, zoom, expand all, collapse all, select, highlight, and open the Configure structure tree panel for a single entity.

Configure structure tree panel (Group/Sort)

Used for group management in the tree structure panel as well as adding, deleting, changing and other operations on groups.

Configure structure tree panel (Show/Skip)

Edit the types of entities to be displayed, with "Show all entity types" ticked by default.

Configure structure tree panel (Options)

Configure the point-and-click operation of the tree structure panel with the following three options ticked by default:

  • On entity selection, select in tree
  • On entity selection, expand parent in tree
  • Deselect entities on hide

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