BIM issues

BIM issue tracking from the 3D model

An issue that says “conflict at gridline C, level 3” still leaves the next person hunting through the model. In Fidrel you click the object, raise an NCR or an issue with a responsible person, and the record remembers the camera, the selection and the section, so whoever opens it sees what you saw. This page explains how that works and where it stops: it is Fidrel’s own record, not a BCF exchange.

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The Fidrel BIM viewer on a laptop, tablet and phone, with a 3D building model on screen

What breaks when issues live outside the model

A screenshot and a guess

The usual issue is a screenshot pasted into a list with a note about where it is. The viewer who opens it has to find the object again, and on a federated model with thousands of elements that takes longer than the fix.

Nobody owns it

An issue in a meeting minute has no name against it. Without a responsible person and a status in a list, it is raised again at the next coordination meeting.

The issue and the document drift apart

The drawing, the RFI and the model each tell part of the story. When the issue sits in a separate tool, the link between them is whatever the person who raised it remembered to paste.

What the record carries

When you create the record from the 3D view, Fidrel stores a viewpoint with it: the camera position, the point the camera looks at, the objects you had selected, up to 200 of them, and the section planes in use, up to six. It is stored with the record, which is why the next person opens the model with the same camera, selection and section instead of a description. The record has a responsible person, a status and the usual history, like any other NCR in the project.

BIM & 3D

A selected object in the Fidrel 3D view with its attributes and the buttons for creating an NCR or a task and linking a document

NCR or issue

The panel offers two ways to log what you see. Create deviation raises an NCR, the record the project uses for non-conformances, and from there a change order can follow. Create task takes you to the project’s list of issues. Both start from the object and the view, so the choice is about how the problem will be handled, not about how it is found.

Clash detection in the Fidrel viewer with the selected models, a tolerance and the list of clashes

From a clicked object to an assigned issue

Step 1
Open the model and select the object
Open the model in 3D and click the object that has the problem. The panel shows its attributes, material and properties. Section it, isolate it or fit the view first, so the picture is what you want the next person to see.
Step 2
Create the NCR or the issue
Choose Create deviation to raise an NCR, or Create task for an issue. Write the Title and Description, pick the Responsible person and use Add photos if you have them, then Save.
Step 3
Link a document or comment
On the same object you can use Link document to tie a drawing or an RFI to it, or Comment to leave a note. The links sit with the object, so anyone selecting it later finds them.
Step 4
Open the same view again
From the record, Show in 3D opens the model with the same camera, the same selection and the same section. A clash from clash detection can also become an NCR straight from the clash list.

Documents on the object

An object can be linked to project documents, such as the drawing it is drawn from or the RFI that asked about it. Link document searches the project’s documents. Because the links sit on the object in the model, whoever clicks the wall later sees the drawing and the open records that relate to it.

What this is not

There is no BCF import or export; the issue is Fidrel’s own record, not a file you can send to another BIM tool. Clash lists export as CSV only. Fidrel does not write issues back into Revit, Archicad or any other design program, and only IFC models can be opened, so an issue cannot be raised in a native design file.

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