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Does Archicad support IFCSpatialZone?

Ville
Contributor

Hello!

IFC4.3 has this definition: https://ifc43-docs.standards.buildingsmart.org/IFC/RELEASE/IFC4x3/HTML/lexical/IfcSpatialZone.htm

Supporting it would be valuable and add interoperability with clients, officials etc.

There are numerous use cases for it, for example defining volume and location of a flat inside a building. In many cases flat's official area and/or volume is not a sum of rooms (Archicad zones (IFCspaces) inside it).

 

Therefore grouping IfcSpaces to a IFCZone isn't sufficient.

 

In our market there are legally binding official areas that are necessary to be presented and communicated within the models (native+ifc). Modeling them with Morph and classifying as Zone is not elegant either.

 

There is a definite need for better spatial data management.

 

In other words what is the plan of supporting IFC4.3, 29 or is there an existing solution?

BR,

Ville

 

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stefan
Advisor

We’re trying to use IfcSpatialZone to model compartments. Alas, I don’t find a way to do this with Archicad. I’ve seen threads in this forum from 2020 asking for it. I guess this wasn’t a requirement to get IFC4 certified?

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