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Blog
Analyses and comparisons on BIM data quality: IFC formats, IDS requirements, BCF issue tracking and the tools used to check building models.
The SeveUp App blog covers BIM data quality: what an IFC model contains, how to write checkable requirements with IDS, how to track issues with BCF. The articles complement the guides and topics below, which describe how the app works step by step.
Guides and topics
Go further on standards, formats and how SeveUp App checks them.
- BIM charter, BIM brief and BIM protocol in FranceThe French BIM charter, BIM brief and BIM protocol compared with the BEP: who writes each one, when, how binding it is, and how to turn it into IDS.
- ISO 19650 explained: parts, CDE, EIR and BEPA plain-English overview of ISO 19650: its six parts, the information requirements chain, the common data environment, the BEP and delivery plans.
- COBie explained: worksheets, formats and handoverWhat COBie is, where it comes from, which worksheets it uses, how it relates to IFC, and how to check model data before handover with IDS.
- IFC 2x3 vs IFC 4: differences and which to useIFC 2x3 or IFC 4? Release dates, ISO numbers and status, what changed between the schemas, how to tell which one a file uses, and what IDS can check.
- IFC model quality and auditImport, check and measure the quality of an IFC model.
- BIM requirements and IDSFormalize and check BIM requirements with IDS.
- BCF and collaborationTrack BCF issues and cross-team collaboration.
- Dashboards and reportingBuild dashboards and extract data from a model.
- ConnectorsConnect Trimble Connect, Catenda and Kairnial.
- BIM project organizationOrganize a BIM project: folders, naming conventions, forms.