IFC Translators

 

The table below give data on the availability of IFC translators.  The content has evolved considerably over the years and is based mainly on data published by IAI.

·         Initially the table was based on data on the CD-ROMs for IFC Releases 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 and from the IAI international web site and chapter specific web sites (particularly German, Finland, and UK). 

·         Direct input was also kindly provided by Rasso Steinmann and following the publication of earlier versions the content has been updated in response to emails received from vendors.

·         The entries shown in blue were added/updated since 23/11/99 (when this table was first issued for comment on the IFC Implementers Web Site).

·         The entries shown in dark red where added on 10/12/99.  They are a collation of implementation plans within the Japanese Chapter kindly provided by Kenji Yamamoto.

·         As the matrix linked IAI Implementation Support Group site now appears to give a comprehensive collation of IFC translators, the entries have now been updated from that source.

·         The entries shown in green where added/revised on 10/4/02 based on IAI Implementation Support Group site (quite a number of earlier entries were deleted at this time as was the columns relating to IFC/1.0 and IFC/1.5 translators).

The tabulated data is regarded as “soft” as it is not attributable information that has received direct from the vendors.  Some “hard” data is published on this site but this is currently not up-to-date, vendors are invited to email details as requested.

 

KEY TO TABLE

C = Certified translator

S = Shipping translator

I = Implementing translator

A = commercial implementation announced

d = demonstrator implementation

p = implementation proposed

 

Application (Company)

Type

Distribution

1.5.1

2.0

2x

ArchiCAD (Graphisoft)

Architectural CAD

Global

C

C

I

RIUSKA (Olof Granlund Oy)

Building Energy Simulation

Global

C

C

I

Solibri Model Checker (Solibri)

Design Spell Checking

Global

S

C

I

COMcheck, MECcheck (PNNL)

Energy Code compliance checking and reporting

USA

d

C

 

Facets (Skanska)

Construction planning, Cost estimating

?

 

C

 

Precition Estimating CAD Suite (Timberline)

Integrate Architectural and Engineering Design to Cost Estimating through Automated Building Object Takeoff and Creation of Cost Estimates

Global

 

C

 

COVE (YIT)

Construction planning, Cost Estimating

?

 

C

 

BSClient for Energy Plus (Berkeley Lab)

Building geometry for energy simulation

Global

d

C

 

VISIO (Microsoft)

Architecture, HVAC, Electrical, FM

Global

 

C

 

Clair Project

Clair Viewer

F

C

S

I

Electro/HVAC/Construction Partner (Data Design System)

Electro/HVAC installation + Timber frame construction

EU

C

 

I

Architectural DeskTop (AutoDesk)

Architectural CAD

Global

C

 

I

EliteNT Architektur (Han Dataport)

Architectural Design

EU

C

 

I

 

 

 

 

 

 

Estimate-Core / sigma for Win (Sumitomo Cement Computer Systems)

Estimating / Architecture

J

 

S

 

ALLPLAN/PLOT/READY/FA (Nemetschek)

AEC, Architectural Design, QTO, BoQ, Structural Design, Reinforcement, BAMTEC, FEM, Pre-cast concrete, Formwork planning, Digital terrain model, Landscape planning, Urban planning, Facility Management

Global

S

 

I

ACADmap (Muigg)

Architecture

Global

S

(ADT)

 

 

SOFiSTiK (SOFiSTiK)

Structural Design, FEM

D

S

(ADT

 

 

RoCAD (Mensch and Maschine)

HVAC

Global

S

(ADT

 

 

Inazuma Apollo (Chuden)

Electrical

J

S

d

p

NcadArc (NEC)

Architecture

J

S

p

 

Personal BLD (Fujitsu)

Architecture

J

S

d

 

Microstation TriForma (Bentley)

Architectural CAD

Global

 

 

I

IBP/IBS (NovaSprint)

Automatic submission and code checking

Singapore

(corenet)

 

 

I

Facility OnLine (Vizelia)

FM

F

 

 

I

INAZUMA-ADT (Chuden-Computer)

Electrical/HVAC/ Plumbing CAD

J

A

 

 

MicroGDS (informatix)

Architecture

J

 

d

 

ARCHITREND 21 (Fukui-Computer)

Architecture

J

 

d

 

Adpack series (Kozo Keikaku Engineering)

Architecture

J

 

d

 

TriModeler (Syspro)

HVAC

J

 

d

 

Super Build/SS1 (Union Systems)

Structural Analysis

J

 

d

 

Metracker (LBNL)

Building Performance Tracking

North America

d

p

p

Building Composer (UA Army Engineering)

Architectural program and space layout with associated client specific performance criteria

USA

d

 

p

Estimate-Core (Sumitomo Semento)

Cost estimation

J

d

 

 

Gaudi-ADT (KANEMATSU ELECTRONICS)

Architectural CAD

J

d

 

 

CADEWA (Yondenko)

HVAC contractors

J

d

 

 

Bocad (Bocad)

Steel, timber, glass construction

Global

d

 

 

TiPOS-plus (Cimware)

Formwork planning

Global

d

 

 

No responsibility can be taken for the correctness of the data in the table (or for the correct correlation of that data).   Please email a.s.watson@leeds.ac.uk to advise of any errors or updates.