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Welcome to the SketchUp-IFC-Manager wiki!

SketchUp-IFC-Manager is an extension that helps you to add more useful information to IFC models created with SketchUp.. It’s created around the dutch “BIM basis ILS” initiative that tries to achieve a basic Information delivery specification for the dutch building industry (http://www.bimloket.nl/BIMbasisILS)

Features added to SketchUp:

Edit IFC properties window:

• classify sketchup components as IFC entities
• classify sketchup components with NL-SfB codes
• Edit Sketchup properties for name, material and layer

Paint properties tool:

• clone all mentioned properties from one component to another.

IFC Export tool:

• exports the model to IFC, including all mentioned properties.

IFC import

Calls the internal Sketchup IFC importer to open an IFC model and clean and restructure it for usablility.

• merges coplanar faces: tries to convert the triangular meshes from the internal importer to polygonal faces which makes models easier to edit.
• explode the outer IFC-file component
• explode the IFC project component: IFC project should normally be the file level, only a single project is allowed in IFC.
• create layers for all IFC classes found in the model and assign objects
• improve component definition names: take the name from the instance(without the IFC class prefix) and set that as component definition name instead of the GUID.

Settings

Settings menu

also see: IFC-Export