What is a .IFC file?
IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is the open standard for sharing building-information models. Used across BIM tools.
- Did you know
- IFC lets architecture and engineering software exchange whole building models, regardless of vendor.
- IFC was created by buildingSMART, the body once known as the International Alliance for Interoperability, and is published as ISO standard 16739.
- IFC models are usually written in the STEP physical file format, the same plain-text encoding used by mechanical CAD exchange files.
- What Analyser reads
- Header and metadata extraction for 3D meshes, voxels, BIM, point clouds and Gaussian splats: Wavefront OBJ, Stanford PLY, OFF, glTF, AMF, MagicaVoxel VOX, COLLADA DAE/ZAE, USD crate, X3D/VRML, LightWave LWO/LWS, Quake MD2/MD3/MDL, VRM avatars, Siemens JT, LAS/LAZ/PCD/PTS/E57 LiDAR clouds, IFC BIM, and .splat/.spz - vertex/face/point counts, bounding boxes, units and authoring tool.
- Depth of analysis
- .IFC is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .IFC file
- Drag a .IFC file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.