BCFclass Documentation

BCFclass

The BCFclass class contains the structures and the methods to read a BCF file.

In addition, the following classes have been extracted from the BCF file schema (see References)

• BCFversion : Version of the file
• BCFmarkup : Topics, Comments and Viewpoints
• BCFvisinfo : Visualisation information

BCF Files

BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) allows different BIM applications to communicate model-based issues with each other by leveraging IFC models that have been previously shared among project collaborators.
More specifically, BCF works by transferring XML formatted data, which is contextualized information about an issue or problem directly referencing a view, captured via PNG and IFC coordinates, and elements of a BIM, as referenced via their IFC GUIDs, from one application to another.
BCF files contain the issues or problems (deisgnated as topics" but not the BIM model itself.

References

Description of BCF files and their usage :
https://technical.buildingsmart.org/standards/bcf

The BCF file schema is detailed in :
https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-XML/tree/master/Documentation

Application Example : Navisworks Plugin

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By Emmanuel Maschas - 16-12-2020