# Hey Yorik!

Commenting post [325](/?blog/2017-325): Hey Yorik!
Thanks for that valueable blog post! I'm coming from the CAD side
(worked with PTC Creo 2.0 in Engineering) and now touching the
BIM-topic. As a product manufacturer our aim is to offer our products in
BIM-formats, so that planners can use and integrate them in their
planner-BIM-workflows. Therefore we want to use our engineering models
(the geometry, CAD) and bring them together with technical data stored
in IFC properties.
Everyone in the market wants to have Revit models, even if they don't
really know much about BIM and IFC, which uses the open standard of
buildingSMART.
In my opinion the right way is to provide the models in IFC-files. The
content of the files should be usecase driven and depends also on the
progress of the planned project. Therefore IFC is able to provide
different views (MDV). For examples there will be a view for the start
planning phase of a project where the planner needs rather raw geometry
and information of the product, whereas he will need a nearly
"asBuilt" model when project comes to an end and gets handed over to
the facility management of the building owner.
FreeCAD should be able to cover standardized ModelDataViews (MDVs) as
they are published by different norm institutions like ISO, CEN, DIN
etc.
With such standard IFC-content you would be able to provide your product
data to what the customer (planner) needs and he could import that into
his own software (like Revit, ArchiCAD, etc.)

As a medicore python programmer I'm planning to use FreeCAD as a
STEP-to-IFC converter by scripting. Therefore I want to use the STEP
geometry and put Information from my database to the different
IFC-properties according to a the standard "Reference View" from IFC
for testing purposes.

Maybe you could support me if I get into trouble?

Greetings Phil