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Export all surfaces to IFC

gdford
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This is an object created with the parmo tool.

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When I export this to IFC i get the surface colors, but I get no IFC data saying the names of the surfaces. In Archicad I can schedule the surfaces for this object, but I can not use expressions to pull out an individual surface from the (All Surfaces) parameter. It seems odd that he surface shows up in IFC, but there seems to be no way to get the names of the surfaces to show up in IFC other than using dumb data.

My goal is to use the name of the surface to give information about the style of the trach head.
Any Ideas Anyone??

Gary Ford
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Laszlo Nagy
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By "parmo", I suppose you mean Param-O?

Is this one object with 4 Lamps within it?

Or are these 4 instances of the same Lamp object?

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Yes Param-O
This is one object with 4 lamps.
This is not 4 instances of the same Lamp Object.

 

Gary Ford
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Laszlo Nagy
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Yes, I think it is not possible to get that information into the exported IFC file if this is a single Library part. This is because you basically would have to be able to identify the subelements of the Library Part and assign those Materials to those subelements. This is not implemented for IFc export.

I wonder what would happen if you saved the file under another name, and in that new file you would convert this Library Part to a Morph. Would then the exported IFC contain the data you need?

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gdford
Advisor

wow - that sounds like a crazy work around.
The lamp head was created as an object and added to paramo and the track was created with a morph inside paramo. If the lamp heads have an attached classification and parameters, would the classification and parameters survive the paramo part creation?

Gary Ford
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Archicad 12-26
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
3701 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s)
(RAM) 128 GB
NVIDIA RTX A2000
Botonis
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In IFC export you can have classifications and properties. Maybe a property could have a description of quality and quantity parameters of the object.

Botonis Botonakis
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Yes - that would be a solution
thanks

Gary Ford
Self Employed - Modeling, Estimating, Construction
Archicad 12-26
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
3701 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s)
(RAM) 128 GB
NVIDIA RTX A2000