Advance Steel weight export to IFC

[BiktimirovK]

According to 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/advance-steel-forum/advance-steel-ifc-export/td-p/9099635

and by own tests, AS not exports to IFC weigh.

Weight is strongly needed outside AS.

As I uderstood, cause is that calculated parameters not exported.

So Idea is to allow calculated and all parameters (customers etc.) export to IFC.

Yours sincerely,

Konstantin Biktimirov

[Anonymous]

Advance Steel use IFC 2x3 actually, still from 2005.

But we can use since 2020, the IFC Class 4.3 with more more more possibilities:

https://technical.buildingsmart.org/standards/ifc/ifc-schema-specifications/

Why it was not implemented? 🤔  The format is open-source ...

[iwafb]

One of the major deciding factors to adopt AS back in the day was its ability to export to IFC. Hard to understand why this function has not been maintained/updated in accordance with industry standards. With any luck, @Gernot.Jeromin might be able to provide comment and direction on the future of IFC.

[Sebastian_Eiche]

maybe additional to the others answers and a forum thread. 
I tested these days a workaround:

• export a 3D DWF (which have all information)
• import this file in a viewer which could do it (I used Desite MD, not sure which could also do it)
• now export the from this software to IFC 

This works in my case, maybe for a few users this could be a way. The exported IFC file has all information like weight, drawing number and so on)

[IR8ASU1]

As also mentioned at https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/advance-steel-forum/advance-steel-ifc-export/td-p/9099635 

IFC files created in Advance Steel do not display other properties such as assembly marks. Apparently IFC files created in Tekla do show assembly marks, and because of this we are losing clients to Tekla users.

[ghensi]

Yes Please!

I was expecting to get from the exported IFC the quantities as stated in the IfcBeam (and IfcMember) Quantity Use Definition section:

But none of them are there.

I would like to write a quick QTO tool/script with IfcOpenShell, but as of now it would be too complicated to do (I should generate the shapes to make the calculation instead of directly query for the quantities I need), and prone to errors/imprecisions.