Use the 3D view, step by step
- Run a check. Results opens with the 3D view at the top.
- Drag in the 3D view to turn the model, and use the wheel to zoom. Press F to fit the model again.
- Choose a face of the small cube to look at the model from that side.
- Click an element. Read its card at the bottom right.
- Choose the number of failed elements in the analytical view. Only the failed elements are drawn, and the bar at the bottom of the window says what is shown.
- Switch Hide the rest off to see the rest of the model as a faint ghost. Press Esc to deselect.
- Choose Categories and switch on Spaces (rooms) to see the rooms.
What the 3D view shows
The 3D view is the first part of Results. It is drawn from the model you checked, and it is built while the check runs, so it is usually ready when the results are. Until then it says that the 3D view shows when the check is done, or counts the elements it has built.
The legend named 3D colours says what each colour means:
- Passed, green, with a ✓: the element passed.
- Failed, red, with a ✕: the element failed.
- Untested: no specification applies to it. It is drawn in a light grey, so a model with few failures looks calm.
- Marked by hand and Not an issue appear in the legend once you have marked values by hand (Extended data): the elements of your marks are drawn in their own colours.
Rooms, openings and a few other kinds of element are left out of the picture until you ask for them (see Show rooms and openings). A check of several models draws all of them together.
Move around the model
Click the 3D view once so that it has the keyboard, then use the mouse or the keys.
- Drag turns the model. While an element is selected the model turns about it; otherwise it turns about the point in the middle of the view.
- Shift and drag, or the right button, moves the model.
- The wheel zooms in and out at the pointer.
- F fits the model into the view. 1 to 6 look at it from the top, bottom, front, back, left and right.
- The arrow keys turn the model, Shift and the arrow keys move it, and plus and minus zoom.
The 3D menu, the column of buttons at the right of the view, holds Orthographic (a flat instead of a perspective view), Hide the rest, Categories and the pin. The small cube in it does the same as keys 1 to 6: choose a face, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Left or Right, and the model turns to look at it from there.
Look at one element, or a group
Click an element in the 3D view and its card opens at the bottom right: its name, its IFC class, its GlobalId, its status and, for a failure, which requirement it fails and why.
You can also go the other way. Almost everything on the page shows its elements in 3D when you click it: a part of the analytical view, such as the number of failed elements, a file name or a count in the Model table, a tab's failure count, a cell or a row in Extended data, a BCF topic. The selected elements are drawn alone, and a bar at the bottom of the window says what is shown, for example "Failed · 240 in 3D", with Deselect and Esc to go back to the whole model.
The switch Hide the rest chooses how the selection is drawn. On, the rest of the model is hidden. Off, the rest stays as a faint ghost around the selection, so you see where the elements are in the building.
Show rooms and openings
The chip Categories lists the kinds of element the 3D view hides until you ask: spaces (rooms), spatial zones, openings and virtual elements, each with a switch and how many the model has. A red ✕ and a number on the chip or on a row count the failed elements of that kind. They are always drawn, see-through red, even with the switch off. Choose the number on a row to show just those failed elements.
Hold the 3D view over a section
The headers of Extended data and of the BCF topics have a small button, 3D. Press it and the 3D view docks at the top with that section alone under it, so you can click rows and see them at the same time without scrolling. Press it again, or press Esc, and the page is back where it was. The pin beside the 3D menu does something similar for the whole page: the analytical and 3D views stay at the top while the data scrolls under them.