DDS-CAD 14: New IFC Engine
Channel: DDScad
Date: 14/11/2018

DDS-CAD 14 introduces a complete new IFC engine. Both the reading of an IFC file and the generation of its geometry is completely rewritten and enhanced. 
The new engine supports native foundation classes and by default applies thread based clipping. This newly implemented thread based clipping makes the new engine significantly faster compared to the old engine using advanced clipping.
For analyzing the information contained in IFC files, the trees in the docking window have also been completely rewritten. They now fully support the IFC4 structures for IFC files, groups and object types. DDS-CAD 14 provides a new filter configurator. It allows you to select the IFC elements that need to be included and excluded on import. When updating an IFC coordination file, the filter configurator also lists the number of deleted and added elements of each entity.