IFC Checker

Where IFC Checker is heading

This is where IFC Checker is heading. Quarters show direction, not promises: items move as people check their own models with it.

  • Shipped: You can use it in IFC Checker today.
  • Building: Being built now.
  • Planned: On the plan, not started yet.
  • Exploring: Being looked into: it may change, move or not happen.

Q4 2026: Now

  • Shipped

    Checking a model. Check an IFC model against an IDS file, or against a predefined test and the stage you choose.

  • Shipped

    The Model Correctness Index. One number for the share of tested elements that pass, always shown with how many elements were tested.

  • Shipped

    Results for every element. Pass, Fail or Untested for every element, with only the failing value marked.

  • Shipped

    The IDS editor. Write an IDS from a model, one of our predefined tests or a blank page, with live counts on a loaded model.

  • Shipped

    More tests in the IDS editor. Choose a kind of test for a rule, give one test to many properties at once and set one test for a whole property set.

  • Shipped

    A list and a grid in the IDS editor. Start an IDS from a list of sets and properties, and see the rules as a grid with the properties down and the kinds of test across.

  • Shipped

    BCF, Excel and CSV. Export the issues as BCF 2.1, and the results as an Excel workbook and a CSV file.

  • Shipped

    The 3D view. See the model in 3D, passed elements green, failed red and untested grey.

  • Shipped

    Model health. Check whether every record of the file can be read and whether it matches its IFC schema, apart from the index.

  • Shipped

    Pictures in BCF. Each BCF viewpoint comes with a picture of its elements, drawn from the 3D view.

  • Shipped

    The sample model. Run a complete check on the sample model with IFC Checker's sample checks, with nothing of your own.

  • Shipped

    Saved results and a share link. Save a check's results and send a read-only link that opens them.

  • Shipped

    Release notes. One dated page of what changed in each version, on the Workflows and help page.

  • Planned

    IDSxAI. Additional tests that IDS cannot express, kept in a file of their own beside your IDS and marked as not part of it.

  • Planned

    Accounts and projects. Sign in and keep a project's models, tests and checks together.

  • Planned

    An AI panel in the app. A panel beside every page that sees what is on screen and uses the same actions as the buttons, while the engine decides pass or fail and the AI explains what fails and drafts requirements.

  • Planned

    A BCF topic server. Keep a project's BCF topics on a server, with an API and webhooks, so every tool sees and answers the same topics.

Q1 2027: Next

  • Planned

    A Revit plugin. Check directly from Revit and take the round trip of the parameter checks, writing the corrections you accept back into the model.

  • Planned

    A desktop app. Check models larger than the web version can, and each new export that lands in a folder you choose.

  • Planned

    The phone version. Choose a model, run a check and read the results on a phone, with the numbers first and the details on request, within a size limit measured on real phones.

Q2 2027: Later

  • Exploring

    Plugins for more authoring tools. The same round trip and write-back in two more authoring tools, after the first.

  • Planned

    An MCP connection. Connect your own AI assistant to IFC Checker (through MCP), so it can read your results and use the same actions as the buttons, while the engine decides pass or fail and the AI explains what fails and drafts requirements.

Second half of 2027: Later

  • Exploring

    Document Checker. The start of Document Checker, which cross-checks documents against each other.

  • Exploring

    Clash Engine. The start of Clash Engine, an AI-driven clash detection engine that connects to your software and works from inside it.

Direction (no date)

  • Exploring

    A PDF report. The results as a report to send with a delivery.

Not planned

  • Building-code checks. Checks against building codes are not planned before late 2027.