Download the files, step by step
- Run a check.
- On Results, scroll to the Model table. Under it are Download Excel, Download CSV and Download BCF.
- Choose one. With one model the file downloads at once. In a check of several models each opens a menu: Whole check gives one file with every model, and Each model separately gives one ZIP with a file for each model, named by the model's file name.
- Read the line under the buttons: it names the file and what it holds, such as how many topics are open.
- To send only some topics in the BCF, tick them in BCF topics and choose Download picked (BCF topics). To send only some of a topic's elements, tick rows in Extended data and choose Add to BCF (drafts).
- To send the elements no specification reached, open the Untested tab and choose Download untested as BCF (untested elements).
- After a rule made on Results has changed the test, choose Download IDS beside the downloads to save the changed IDS (how).
What each file holds
- BCF: one topic for each specification and group of requirements (a property set, attributes, material, classification or location), listing its elements and what each fails, a summary topic, a topic for each warning, and your marks by hand. Each viewpoint has a picture of its elements from the 3D view, or the IFC Checker mark where none could be drawn. Results in doubt are never topics: the summary topic counts them. Your changes to the topics, your comments and your drafts are in the file you download next.
- Excel: a workbook for people, with the sheets Summary, Topics, Findings and Untested, and numbers stored as numbers.
- CSV: the findings as plain rows, one for each finding, for other programs to read.
- With Model health picked, both spreadsheets list its issues with their line and record in the file.
Each failure in the spreadsheets names its BCF topic, so a row in Excel and a topic in your authoring or coordination tool can be matched. A topic keeps the same ID every time the same model is checked against the same test.
Several models
A check of several models downloads as one file for the whole check, or one ZIP with a file for each model. Models that gave no result are not in the files, and one line under the buttons says how many.
When a download does not start
The buttons are greyed while the check runs, and a check of Model health alone has no downloads, because they need an IDS. A line under the buttons says why. If a file is not saved, a notice says so and offers to try again.
From a shared link
A page opened from a saved link has the same downloads, with the saver's marks, topic changes and drafts in them. Save results and share a link.