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BIM-Tools / SketchUp-IFC-Manager

IFC data manager and exporter for SketchUp.
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Export IfcLine / IfcPolyline #29

Open husky-tmr opened 2 years ago

husky-tmr commented 2 years ago

Is it possible in some way to develop the export for an IfcLine / IfcPolyline? Today even if I classify the component with this IFC Class it doesn't export. Excellent work in this Plugin btw

janbrouwer commented 2 years ago

thanks @ricottatiago Do you think it would be best if the exporter would always export all "loose edges" in the model to IFC as IfcLine/IfcPolyline? For now I ignored those because most of the time they seem noise/modelling errors. But it could be useful for things Grid lines and door symbols. What's your usecase for this? Classifying an object as IfcLine would in itself not add much meaning I think.

husky-tmr commented 2 years ago

Hi Jan, I have a case where the structural engineer wants to know the direction of the slabs for construction, using lines would just be perfect to show that info in other softwares because it is a visual thing. I don't think it is a good idea to export "loose edges", I would export only the objects and lines that were classified with IfcPolyline or IfcLine because by doing this it means that the user knows what he is doing. In many many ways, exporting the IfcLine / IfcPolyline would help in workflows :)