Building Property Data

Building property data is general information about the construction project, site and designers that is stored in the IFC model. The information is needed in the building permit process.

You can define property data in the document browser:

1. Open the Settings branch of the document browser.
2. Double-click Building data. The "Building data” dialog box opens.
3. Define the property data:
   • Add a single property by selecting Add property from the right-click menu, and complete the property name and value.
   • You can copy a set of properties and their values ​​from an Excel table and paste them into the dialog box by selecting Paste properties from the right-click menu. In the Excel table, the properties and values ​​must be in their own columns. You can copy and paste just the property column, or both the property and value columns.
4. Confirm by clicking OK.

Building data can be stored in the IFC property sets.

You can add IFC property sets for the building as follows: