Guides

Guides · 17 Sep 2026

IFC in Revit: how to link, open and export IFC files

Linking versus opening an IFC in Revit and what each one gives you, whether IFC elements can become native Revit families, the export settings that decide whether an IFC is usable — and what we found in the real Revit IFC exports our models are measured against.

Guides · 14 Sep 2026

What is an IFC file? The IFC format and IFC models, explained

What IFC is, who maintains it, what is actually inside an .ifc file — shown with lines from a real one — how an IFC model is structured, the versions and formats you will meet, and what opens one.

Guides · 11 Sep 2026

As-built documentation: drawings, models and surveys, and which one you actually need

As-built drawings, as-built models and as-built surveys are three different deliverables with three different costs and three different failure modes. What each one is for, what it should contain, and how to specify the accuracy so the result is checkable.

Guides · 8 Sep 2026

BIM LOD levels explained: LOD 100 to LOD 500

What each Level of Development actually specifies, what LOD 300 does and does not promise about accuracy, and how to read an LOD requirement in a scope of work without over- or under-delivering.

Guides · 5 Sep 2026

How to review an AI-generated BIM model in an hour

A review procedure for a machine-proposed facade model: what to check first, how to use the per-element confidence and the measured verdict, when to bulk-accept, and how to make the reviewed model yours without losing the GUIDs.

Guides · 24 Aug 2026

E57, LAS, LAZ or PLY: which point cloud format for scan-to-BIM

The four formats a scan-to-BIM pipeline reads, what each one keeps and loses, how big they get for a facade scan, and the export settings that make the difference between a model and a mess.

Guides · 21 Aug 2026

LOD 200, LOD 300 and Level of Accuracy for a facade model from a scan

What LOD and LOA actually specify for a scan-derived facade model, where the two systems overlap and where they do not, and what an automatic pipeline can honestly deliver at each level today.

Guides · 15 Aug 2026

What scan-to-BIM costs per square metre, and where the money goes

Manual modelling, outsourcing, software licences and automatic pipelines, compared on the only unit that makes them comparable: the square metre of facade. With the measured compute cost of an automatic run.

Guides · 12 Aug 2026

Point cloud to IFC: what you send, what you get back, and what to check

Turning a facade scan into an IFC model, from the buyer's side: what the scan has to be, what comes back, how long it takes, what it costs, and how to tell a good model from a bad one before you hand it to a client.