The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) are an open standard in civil engineering used to describe building and construction industry data.
The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) are an open standard in civil engineering used to describe building and construction industry data.
There are officially 3 file formats specified: STEP, XML and JSON. STEP is most commonly used as exchange format for projects, XML and JSON are meant for web exchange.
See the buildingSMART IFC page for more information.