At present IESve has its own modeler and can read data from a gbXML file.
Request a demo from the IESve site or call the office in Cambridge, Mass. On closer examination, the modeling done for IESve and the process of design and analysis may have you doing more of the preliminary work in the IESve model - it will be used for doing simulation, but not the kind of simulation done in most of the North American DOE based simulators which are so cumbersome that you use them to test ideas that approximate a final design because the input steps are so onerous.
Remember that ArchiCAD and even Revit are design and documentation tools. They can serve as tools to visually assess design ideas, but not much more. Once decisions are made, they are well suited to articulate the details and to coordinate the integration of the assemblies.
IESve is much more a design lab - try ideas, weigh constraints and establish which are the most important to the design. Better yet, its a design lab that brings the whole design team together in an age when we have to stop thinking that a good mechanical system is necessarily one that fits inside the architect's beautiful box. IESve is a view to the next generation of BIM tools and a tool for the currently emerging trend toward integrated design.
Tools for the preliminaries in the BIM process - at least as far as North America is concerned - are only now starting to emerge. Glasgow's IESve is one, Houston's Trelligence Affinity which does functional programming and space planning is another.
Keep looking up!
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