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> ## Documentation Index
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# Cyclone 3DR | BIM Analyses overview

## Purpose

The goal of this page is to help you choose the right BIM Analysis tool depending on the type of Point Cloud vs BIM Model analysis you need to achieve.

## BIM Analysis features

### Recommandations

|  | [Deviation Analysis](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-compareinspectcloudc) | [Progress Monitoring](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-bimprogressmonitoring) | [Clash Detection](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-clashc) | [Visual Reporting](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-inspectionnotesc) | [Tolerance Checking](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-tolerancechecking) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Use cases** | QA-QC \| As-Built \| Coordination \| Standard \| Scan to BIM Review | Monitoring sub-contractor \| Invoicing \| Communication \| Completion of works | Design for renovation \| Coordination \| Clearance verification | Design for renovation \| Completion \| Clearance \| As-Built \| Scan to BIM Review | Monitoring sub-contractor \| Completion \| Clearance \| Standard \| Scan to BIM Review |
| **Purpose** | **High-accuracy** comparison | **Progress** status | **Clash** detection | **Manual** reporting | **Tolerance** verification |
| **Deliverable** | 3D Heatmap | 1-page progress report Detailed analysis per BIM asset | 1-page progress report Detailed analysis per BIM asset | 1 summary of notes Detailed review of all notes | 1-page tolerance report Detailed analysis per BIM asset |
| **Suggested** **Accuracy** | [2 mm – 20 mm] | [2 cm – 15 cm] | [1 cm – 25 cm] | [5 cm – 50 cm] | [0,5 cm – 30 cm] |
| **BCF Workflow** | Manual [Inspection Notes] | **Automatic** | **Automatic** | Manual | **Automatic** |
| **Suggested** **scanners** | P-XX \| RTC 360 | BLK2GO \| BLK ARC | BLK 360 \| RTC 360 \| BLK2GO | BLK2GO \| BLK ARC \| BLK360 | Static or Mobile Depending on the tolerance |
| **AI Cleaning** | **Recommended** with AI Classification | **Optimized** results with Indoor Construction Site AI Model | **Recommended** with AI Classification | **Recommended** with AI Classification | **Optimized** results with Indoor Construction Site AI Model |
| **Expertise** | Surveyors, Experts | 3D/BIM Specialists, Engineers, Site managers, VDC | Surveyors, Experts, VDC, 3D/BIM Specialists | 3D/BIM Specialists, Engineers, Site managers, VDC | 3D/BIM Specialists, Engineers, Site managers, VDC |

### Which editions?

|  | [Deviation Analysis](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-compareinspectcloudc) | [Progress Monitoring](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-bimprogressmonitoring) | [Clash Detection](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-clashc) | [Visual Reporting](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-inspectionnotesc) | [Tolerance Checking](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-tolerancechecking) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Standard** | ✅ (mesh only) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| **Survey** | ✅ (mesh only) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| **AEC** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| **Plant** | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |

### Which types of design models?

|  | [Deviation Analysis](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-compareinspectcloudc) | [Progress Monitoring](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-bimprogressmonitoring) | [Clash Detection](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-clashc) | [Visual Reporting](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-inspectionnotesc) | [Tolerance Checking](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-tolerancechecking) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **MESHES** All formats | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| **CAD** DWG, DXF, STEP, IGES, COE | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| **BIM** IFC Format | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| **BIM** RVT Format | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |

## Export BCF tickets

The following commands embed the capacity to export BCF (BIM Collaboration Format) files that contain information from IFC model for an open-BIM experience with other software and BIM solutions.

> Cyclone 3DR supports BCF 2.1 format (export).

| **Menu** | **Feature** | **Comment** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analysis | Inspection Notes | **Input: Inspected BIM Model** Feature to report issues from an inspection and that gives the ability to create manual notes that contains screenshots, images from disk, labels and deviation values (attached CSV), clipping object information and coordinates and orientation of viewpoint; but also, a user-defined title, an assignment (email address), a comment and a priority. |
| Analysis | Visual Notes | **Input: BIM Model** Feature to report comments and notes based on visual analysis of a BIM design model and the captured reality. The feature gives the ability to create manual notes that contains screenshots, images from disk, distance measurements, clipping object information and coordinates and orientation of viewpoint; but also, a user-defined title, an assignment (email address), a comment and a priority. |
| Analysis | Clash | **Input: A point cloud and a BIM Model** Feature to report clashes that contain screenshot, clash status (clash, no clash or undefined) and a comment. All tickets refer to the same assignment (email address). |
| Analysis | Progress Monitoring | **Input: A point cloud and a BIM Model** Feature to report the progress monitoring analysis. Default export contains a summary (progress distribution between installed, in progress, not installed and no data). Ability to customize the export and to create additional single tickets per analyzed element depending on their status (installed, not installed, in progress). All tickets refer to the same assignment (email address). |
| Analysis | Tolerance Checking | **Input: A point cloud and a BIM Model** Feature to report a Tolerance Checking analysis. Default export contains a summary (distribution among within tolerance \| out of tolerance \| no data) Ability to customize the export and to create additional single tickets per analyzed element depending on their status (within tolerance \| out of tolerance \| no data). All tickets refer to the same assignment (email address). |
| Touch Mode | BIM Inspection | **Input:A point cloud and a BIM Model** The “Touch Mode” BIM Inspection workflow also offers a way to create BCF issues. The contents are similar to the notes that are exported from “Inspection notes”, which is the desktop equivalent of BIM Inspection. |