Format
Industry Foundation Classes
Summary
- Name
- Industry Foundation Classes
- Version
- 2x2
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/659
- Format type
- Text (Structured)
- Description
- The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model is intended to describe building and construction industry data. It is a platform neutral, open file format specification that is not controlled by a single vendor or group of vendors. It is an object-based file format with a data model developed by buildingSMART (formerly the International Alliance for Interoperability, IAI) to facilitate interoperability in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, and is a commonly used collaboration format in Building information modeling (BIM) based projects.
- File extensions
-
ifc - Source
- Catenda / Catenda
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
Industry Foundation Classes 2x2
- Note
- BOF: ISO-10303-21{0-4096}FILE_SCHEMA{0-1}({0-1}('IFC2X2
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
49534F2D31303330332D3231{0-4096}46494C455F534348454D41{0-1}28{0-1}2827494643325832- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V81
- Release date
- 18 February 2015
Industry Foundation Classes 2x2: Signature and version updated.
-
Added in V75
- Release date
- 17 July 2014
Industry Foundation Classes: Signature developed in collaboration with Catenda/the DuraArk project
Industry Foundation Classes: Outline Entry Added. Submitted by Catenda/the DuraArk project