topic Re: Parking Stalls for IFC Translation in Collaboration with other software

Parking Stalls for IFC Translation

Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:41:40 GMT

IFC lists a Parking Space or Stall as a Predefined Space Type.

My Parking Stall object and anyone else's are objects to which I can't assign something that Archicad associates with Zones (which are space types).

Does anyone know of a way to spoof the object into being a "Zone-that-isn't-a-Zone?

I tried assigning the object to the Subtype of IFC Space, but it then showed up as an MEP IFC Type.

Re: Parking Stalls for IFC Translation

Iyur — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:30:31 GMT

What's a classification of this object?

Re: Parking Stalls for IFC Translation

Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:58:30 GMT

I'm not sure I understand your question, but I'm trying to get the parking stall to this item in the IFC Classification system: https://standards.buildingsmart.org/IFC/DEV/IFC4_3/RC2/HTML/schema/ifcproductextension/lexical/ifcspacetypeenum.htm

Re: Parking Stalls for IFC Translation

Iyur — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:06:17 GMT

What I've got from the screenshots, you're operating with subtypes in the GDL object. But then each element, even library ones have it's own classification which relates to the mapping export scheme, so what's the classification of this element?

Re: Parking Stalls for IFC Translation

Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:10:15 GMT

like this? I'm using the AC Classifications 2.0 which show a different Classification name:

Re: Parking Stalls for IFC Translation

Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:14:18 GMT

the part I don not understand is how to turn the field in this dialog from Grey (uneditable) to something I can edit:

Re: Parking Stalls for IFC Translation

Iyur — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 13:26:15 GMT

Ahh, now I see.

As you're using a custom object, it's impossible to translate it as an IfcSpace due to internal limitations: