Exporting quantities related to structural elements to the BIM model in order to facilitate their measurement

CYPECAD exports a BIM model to a project on the BIMserver.center platform which includes the quantities related to certain structural elements, among other things. As a result, programs such as Open BIM Quantities can use these quantities to generate the bill of quantities for these elements. These quantities are exported using the standardised IFC format.

In version 2022.g, the number of quantities associated with construction elements that can be exported has been extended. CYPECAD now exports the following quantities, which are listed by construction element and indicating the IFC entity that it contains:

• Walls (entity “IfcWall”, set of quantities “Qto_WallBaseQuantities”)
  • Length (“Length”)
  • Width (“Width”)
  • Height (“Height”)
  • Gross footprint area (“GrossFootprintArea”)
  • Net footprint area (“NetFootprintArea”)
  • Gross side area (“GrossSideArea”)
  • Net side area (“NetSideArea”)
  • Gross volume (“GrossVolume”)
  • Net volume (“NetVolume”)
    
    
• Slabs ( entity ”IfcSlab”, set of quantities ”Qto_SlabBaseQuantities”)
  • Width (“Width”)
  • Length (“Length”)
  • Depth (“Depth”)
  • Perimeter (“Perimeter”)
  • Gross area (“GrossArea”)
  • Net area (“NetArea”)
  • Gross volume (“GrossVolume”)
  • Net volume (“NetVolume”)
  • Gross weight (“GrossWeight”)
  • Net weight (“NetWeight”)
    
    
• Beams (entity ”IfcBeam”, set of quantities ”Qto_BeamBaseQuantities”)
  • Length (“Length”)
  • Cross section area (“CrossSectionArea”)
  • Outer surface area (“OuterSurfaceArea”)
  • Gross volume (“GrossVolume”)
  • Net volume (“NetVolume”)
    
    
• Columns (entity ”IfcColumn”, set of quantities ”Qto_ColumnBaseQuantities”)
  • Length (“Length”)
  • Cross section area (“CrossSectionArea”)
  • Outer surface area (“OuterSurfaceArea”)
  • Gross volume (“GrossVolume”)
  • Net volume (“NetVolume”)
    
    
• Footing (entity ”IfcFooting”, set of quantities ”Qto_FootingBaseQuantities”)
  • Length (“Length”)
  • Width (“Width”)
  • Height (“Height”)
  • Gross volume (“GrossVolume”)
  • Net volume (“NetVolume”)
  • Gross weight (“GrossWeight”)
  • Net weight (“NetWeight”)
    
    
• Piles (entity “IfcPile”, set of quantities “Qto_PileBaseQuantities”)
  • Cross section area  (“CrossSectionArea”)
    
    

In order to export the quantities, the complete analysis of the job must be carried out and the "Quantities" option must be selected in the "Share" dialogue box, which appears when clicking on the "Share" option in the "BIMserver.center" menu.