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Export pins as a BCF file

Matrise BCF export packs your pins into one BCF file. BCF, the BIM Collaboration Format, is an open file format for passing issues about a model between programs. Each pin becomes an issue, called a topic, with its title, description, type, status, comments, the element it is attached to, the view it was placed from and an image of that view. Revit and other modelling programs that read BCF can open the file, so each issue arrives with its location attached.

Export

  1. Set the pin filters if you only want some pins. See Find and filter pins.
  2. Click Pins on the rail, then BCF.
  3. If a filter is on, Matrise asks Export filtered pins and says how many of the pins will go. Click Export, or set the filter to All first to export everything.
  4. In Export BCF, Matrise says how many pins will be exported and whether any images still need to be made.
  5. Click Export with images, or Export without images to skip the missing ones.

Your browser saves a file named SRS_pins followed by the date, ending in .bcf.

When images need to be made

Pins placed on the site map, or brought in from a file, may not have an image yet. To make them, Matrise visits each scan position in turn.

  • The dialog estimates how long this will take.
  • The view will move through the site on its own. Keep this tab in front and do not switch away.
  • A bar shows Generating images, then Building BCF file while the file is packed.
  • Click Cancel to stop.

Open the file in another program

Open or import the .bcf file in your modelling program's BCF or issues tool. Each topic opens at the view it was placed from.