Profiles in Ifc

Profiles and extrusions are common in our industry and while modelling these, we come across many variants, be it for Structural steel sections, Slabs, Railings, MEP or Architectural elements.

IFC lets you create various profile extrusion (with or without holes) based on standard profiles or arbitrary ones. You can then apply various transformations on these profiles like translation, rotation, mirror and scaling and even combine them to create complex profiles assemblies. Such complex composite profiles still hold all the information and properties of its underlying parent profile.

Furthermore, we can even automate creation of these sections enabling faster and error free authoring of BIM models.