IFC Material for Objects Add-on

[Francois_MCD]

Hello Graphisoft team

When I just downloaded the Tech Preview Update and notice this IFC Material for Objects Add-on.

Info: "IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is an ISO standard developed by buildingSMART for model and data exchange between all stakeholders of the design process. This add-on streamlines the IFC collaboration with other parties."

I checked and see I did do the installation with the 1st Tech Preview but have not used it or notice it in the interface.

Info in the Add-on pallet says: "Allows you to manually assign a typical material to any library object."

Where can we find a manual / more info about how this add-on works or what it does, please?

[Patricio Zapata · Accepted solution]

Hi Francois:

This is something that was develop to allow Archicad to generate a manually assigned material to doors and windows, as in Chile there is a mandate that requieres that piece of data on every single element.

As doors and windows just have surfaces, archicad couldn't put that data on the elements, so it requires a a manual mapping to work properly, that's why you couldn't see a "tool" with that addon

This haven't change too much, so the attachment will work if you want to try it.

p.z

[Francois_MCD]

Thank you @Patricio Zapata  for your feedback & the PDF guide.