How do I check against my own IDS file?

Check against your own IDS

1. Open Check and drop the .ids file together with your model, anywhere on the page. You can also choose both files with Choose files, or add the IDS later with Add files.
2. Look under Tests. The IDS is listed under Yours, marked Your file, with the name written inside the file, and it is picked as the test.
3. Read the line above Run checker. It names the model and the IDS with how many rules it has.
4. Choose Run checker. Results opens, and its header names your IDS.
5. To check against another IDS, drop it too, or choose another row under Yours. To correct an IDS and check again, drop the corrected file under the same name: it takes the place of the old one.

When the file is refused

Two kinds of .ids file are not added, and the notice names the file and says why.

• Not an IDS 1.0 file. An IDS of another version, a file made by the old IFC Checker editor, or a file that is not an IDS at all. Ask for the requirements as an IDS 1.0 file, or write them again in the IDS editor.
• An IDS 1.0 file that fails IFC Checker's IDS checks. The notice names the first problem and offers Open in IDS editor, where the editor lists every problem so you can fix it and download a corrected file.

More on both in Why was my file refused or not read?.

Without a model

The IDS can come first. Added on its own, it is listed under Files, and the Tests table opens when you add a model: the IDS is then under Yours and picked.

Warnings before the run

If your IDS has specifications that name no IFC class and a model is large, the engine looks through every record of the file for them, and a line above Run checker says how much longer the check may take. Naming the IFC classes in each specification's applicability makes the check fast. You can still run it as it is.