elaboration

[benkoshy]

Hi

thank you for providing the code for viewing. i somehow randomly stumbled on this page.

Would you be able to elaborate what exactly it does?

C# classes to generate and parse OpenBIM IFC (Industry Foundation Class) files

much appreciated. project looks quite interesting.

rgds

Ben

[jmirtsch]

Hi Ben,

This c# project implements the Industry Foundation Class definition of object oriented representation of building and construction data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Foundation_Classes It provides read/write functionality in STEP, and also work in progress IfcJson and IfcXml expressions.

If you have any questions, please add further replies.

Hi Tom, Did you see there was a second branch supporting dotnet3.5 ? https://github.com/jmirtsch/GeometryGymIFC/tree/DotNet3.5 I haven't pushed recent changes to it yet though.

Cheers,

Jon

[benkoshy]

It provides read/write functionality in STEP, and also work in progress IfcJson and IfcXml expression

Thank you for your reply. would you be able to elaborate on what STEP is?

rgds

Ben

[jmirtsch]

Hi Ben,

See if this reference helps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303-21

Cheers,

Jon

[benkoshy]

Hi thx for the msg Mr Jon that link definitely helped.

I think I understand - to adopt a coding analogy:

• STEP = a way of representing data. (abstract)

• IFC = the specifics details of the general abstract skeletal structure of STEP - in terms of building and construction objects. (IFC can be thought of as a concrete implementation of the above STEP abstraction).

• Tekla/Revit/ArchiCAD data structures - IFC represents an abstraction of the specific data structures used by those tools - or in other words, the data structure Tekla etc. specifically uses is a concrete instance of IFC structure.

• This library allows one to programatically create data structures which can be read and manipulated by different software: e.g. Revit AND Tekla etc. (or any software which is IFC compatible).

Am I understanding this correctly?