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Hello Experts,
I made a model of simple framed structure using ETABS. After exporting it into the IFC file (Structural Analysis view), I found that there is no any information related to the geometry of the elements.
I want to know that it is possible to put geometrical data information in Structural Analysis view of an IFC file?
Thanks and Regards
Jaspreet Kaur

Hello,
I Had also worked with ETABS and exported IFC file (both 2*3 and 4) to get structural analysis view.
Well ETABS exported structural analysis in IFC files it can be easily view and check in notepad and compare it with IFC standard . BUT we can only check files in text viewer as per my research.
No bim viewer and software shown us what was in ifc file in GUI mode. so thats why jaspreet you were not able to view in these viewers .

Ive also been looking at this and have not been able to find a viewer which displays results - I would be very interested to hear how you get on. If you do make contact with any of the software vendors would you mind posting the details here? I would be happy to follow up as well - requests are likely to get more weight if multiple parties are asking for the same thing.

I contacted Auto desk, Bentley on their forums. They are not having a
viewer or software which can help us to view structural analysis data.
In reality they are not having any software which can export analysis
data to IFC file. So it is clear from this line that if no export then
no import too.

The free treeviewer allows you to explore the structural analysis data with no geometry. Rhino importer can visualise the model and also provided are translators to convert the model to robot, ism, sap2000, etabs and several other applications. I recall sap2000, stabs, Sofistik and spacegass all have their own importer out of the box.

Hi all,
We are working on an open-source structural analysis workflow with the structural ifc entities and the use of Code_Aster, a finite element solver developed by EDF.
The IFC authoring will be done with BlenderBIM and we have a public repository ( ) for the scripts needed to apply the workflow with Code_Aster.

To support this project I am developing a web-based model viewer specific for the structural ifc entities, model etc., which will be completely free to use online. I will post again when the viewer will be online. Maybe it can be of use for the people in this thread.

@Tandeep Could I please use the building model that you uploaded as a test case in the ifc2ca project (it means have an example based on this file which will be publicly accessible)?? Thank you in advance

The Ifc-To-Code_Aster project ( ) is progressing and we have released a web structural BIM viewer to facilitate the conversion of IFC structural models to JSON for configuring and running analyses with Code_Aster.

Awesome one.
I will try to available more complex models to you today as i want to check will they work here or not.
I think this script will be able to show steel bars reinforcement also. But dont know will it work for load cases and applied load on buildings.
Meet you soon with new models for testing.

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