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vlahtinen
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Can IFC export embed openings directly into element geometry?

Is it possible to export IFC with openings baked into the element geometry instead of as separate IfcOpeningElement voids?

 

In other words, instead of exporting a wall plus an opening relationship, the wall would be exported as a solid that already has the hole cut out.

This would be handy when a wall needs a cut but there’s no actual opening — using the opening tool would be much simpler than modeling with boolean operations.

 

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Does Archicad support this? From what I can see in the IFC export settings, openings always seem to be exported as IfcOpeningElement.

 

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