IFC Property Explorer
Read the data inside an IFC as a searchable, filterable table, and take exactly the rows and columns you need with you.
Drop your IFC here
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Large models work best on a desktop browser. Files above roughly 500.0 MB may exceed browser memory.
How it works
- 1Select an IFC file. It is read from your disk by your browser and goes no further.
- 2Every element is read locally along with its property sets and quantities.
- 3Search, filter by class or storey, add property columns, and sort.
- 4Click any row for the full property breakdown, or export the filtered result.
About IFC Property Explorer
Most BIM questions are table questions. Which doors have no fire rating? Which walls on level 3 are load bearing? Answering them in an authoring application means building a schedule, which is a lot of clicking for something you will use once.
An IFC already holds the answer. Every element carries its property sets, and the work is simply getting them into a grid you can filter and sort.
The property columns are built from what is genuinely in your file rather than from a fixed list, so you are picking from real data. That also makes gaps visible: if a property you expect is not offered, no element in the model has it, which is usually more useful than finding an empty column.
Exports carry the filtered set, not the page on screen. Filter down to the rows that matter, add the columns you need, and the spreadsheet arrives ready to use. For a conversion of the whole model instead, use IFC to Excel.
Questions
- Is my IFC file uploaded anywhere?
- No. The file is read by your own browser using a WebAssembly IFC parser. The model is never sent to FreeBIMTools or anywhere else, and there is no upload endpoint for it.
- What does the search box actually search?
- Everything: name, GlobalId, IFC class, object type, storey, and every property name and property value on every element. Typing a fire rating, a room number or part of a type name all work.
- How do I get a specific property as a column?
- Open Property columns and tick it. The list is built from the property sets actually present in your model, so you are choosing from real data rather than a guess at what might exist. Columns you add are included in the export.
- Does the export include everything or just what I can see?
- It exports the filtered result, not just the visible page. If you filter to fire doors on level 2 and export, you get every fire door on level 2 with the columns you selected.
- Why do some elements show no properties?
- Not every element carries property sets. Whether they exist depends on the authoring tool and the export settings used. Empty property sets across a whole class usually points at the export configuration rather than the model.
- Can it read a Revit .rvt file?
- No, and no browser tool honestly can. RVT is a proprietary format that needs Revit itself. Export an IFC from Revit and this tool will read it.