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IFC Site Landscape

  1. B by baswein on 11 May 2021, edited 6 Nov 2022 #

    I see that building smart has a call for standards development around IFC Site Landscape and Urban Planning. I reached out to them a year ago and never heard anything back. The timeline for completion has passed. Has anyone heard any updates on this front?

  2. T by theoryshaw on 12 May 2021 # +1 votes

    I hate to say it, but a lot of inquires (solicited, or otherwise) go unanswered from BuildingSmart.

  3. M by magicalcloud_75 on 12 May 2021 #

    Imo BS is looking to far ahead, not really a source for pratical questions and answers.

    My Hands-on question is this .. how can i trun my TIN from Qgis / 3D .SHP into a DTM landscape terrain that is suited to fit IFC schema?

    I would really love push this foward into eg. Autodesk Revit as an alternative to (Civil3d) Autodesk dwg as workflow. :P

  4. M by Moult on 12 May 2021 # +1 votes

    @theoryshaw said:

    I hate to say it, but a lot of inquires (solicited, or otherwise) go unanswered from BuildingSmart.

    Unfortunately, this is true. That said, we can only try: https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/progress-update-on-site-landscape-and-urban-planning/3617

    I would like to help buildingSMART organise a structured and transparent workflow for community-driven (i.e. by user usecases, or by implementer technical reasons) changes to be received, reviewed, and implemented. Currently, they do not seem to have this transparent process, and changes in the spec seemingly pop out of nowhere and many errors persist.

  5. B by baswein on 13 May 2021 # +2 votes
  6. M by magicalcloud_75 on 18 May 2021, edited 18 May 2021 # +2 votes
  7. M by magicalcloud_75 on 18 May 2021, edited 18 May 2021 #

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  8. M by Moult on 18 May 2021 # +1 votes

    I believe infra, road, rail stuff is coming pretty soon into IFC, so certainly this overlaps with GIS. There is work underway in IfcOpenShell to support all the new rail stuff including some fancy maths that goes completely over my head.

    Hopefully landscape and environment will come next.

  9. M by magicalcloud_75 on 20 May 2021, edited 20 May 2021 #

    Just dropping in here.

    Working on my routines to further utilize the use of DXF and PNG in Qgis. (overlayed, transparency, CRD with world files etc.)

    Lots of great posibilities coming form QGIS for construction industry and AEC (still hate the word to box me in...)

    Until that day 3D IFC software has significance to offer i will continue a focus on 2D when it comes it.

    @Moult 'Pretty soon' ? i hope you don't mind i translate this from BS terms as '.. some years from now'

    Hope it proves me otherwise though :P

  10. M by Moult on 24 May 2021 # +1 votes

    @magicalcloud_75 my definition of pretty soon is that IfcOpenShell already has rudimentary support for various new infra geometry, and it has recently been added to my todo list to allow users to start testing this via the BlenderBIM Add-on UI. So in my opinion that is within months, a user can start seeing multiple real implementations. There is also an open source infra IFC viewer already available.

  11. B by baswein on 6 Nov 2022, edited 6 Nov 2022 # +1 votes
  12. J by JanF on 6 Nov 2022 # +1 votes

    @magicalcloud_75 said:

    Hi mutual intrested people

    Why is Revit & GIS.. so .. of course? They are really totally two different animals and i think IFC is far from ideal and ready.

    Well to me it reads mor like " of course even after 20 years of development revit is stil incapable of such fundamental tasks out of the box, so I'll show you how you can program this yourself"

    But maybe it's just me.

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