{"id":457353,"date":"2024-12-03T09:41:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/?p=457353"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:41:50","slug":"material-properties-in-ifc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/material-properties-in-ifc\/","title":{"rendered":"Material properties in IFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

In IFC 4 it is possible to export material properties to IFC - but there are a few things to keep in mind when doing this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let's take a look at this in Revit - material properties are basically the properties that we see in the material editor (e.g. in the tabs Identity, Physical or Thermal<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is also possible to add your own properties to the materials:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All these properties can be exported to IFC: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now comes the catch - unfortunately, these properties are not visible in every IFC viewer, especially not for composite components (e.g. multi-layer walls). Here is the result in the KIT Viewer<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I would therefore always recommend checking the properties in a text editor first - here you can easily see whether a particular property has been exported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Material properties are usually evaluated by other systems anyway, e.g. for performing calculations - so the display in the viewer is probably not as crucial as it may seem at first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think, did you know that and do you use the material properties in IFC? <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since IFC4 it is possible to export material properties to IFC - but there are a few things to...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-457353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ifc","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/markus-spiske-hvSr_CVecVI-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2lEa7-1UYF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457600,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457353\/revisions\/457600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}