topic Re: Tracking Down missing building materials in Libraries & objects

Tracking Down missing building materials

scottybaustralia1990 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:05:55 GMT

Is there a quick and efficient way to find which beam/object has the missing material rather than trolling through 100's of my objects?

Re: Tracking Down missing building materials

AllanP — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:30:21 GMT

The bit of the code "SS-116" is the Element ID of the placed object.

use find and select,

Element ID

copy the id name out of the error

that will give you the placed object, and the object type

Re: Tracking Down missing building materials

Lingwisyer — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:51:46 GMT

Re: Tracking Down missing building materials

JeffH — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:11:11 GMT

What I do is select everything Right of the " | " and left of the " ) "...In your case 276A..............194 , copy this entire string of unique ID

Then under the find & select palette click the drop down arrow next to add & Select "IFC Properties", in the new flyout select the TAG option under Attributes.

Paste your copied ID in there and it should find the desired item to correct the issue(s).

Re: Tracking Down missing building materials

David Maudlin — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:39:32 GMT

scottybaustralia1990:

I have seen this error message with Stairs, the "SS" is the default ID for Stair Stringers. Check the Building Materials under Stringer Component Settings (it is possible that the macro "beamProfile_m.gsm" is used for other parts). Sometimes it appears when an unused parameter, like "End Plates", has a "Missing" Building Material.

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David

Re: Tracking Down missing building materials

Martin Dimitrov — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:32:00 GMT

I can't find this TAG option ? In the IFC menu there is no TAG option. Any help?

Re: Tracking Down missing building materials

Barry Kelly — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:26:02 GMT

Barry.

Re: Tracking Down missing building materials

Martin Dimitrov — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:46:31 GMT

Тhank you very much.