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Plant Mock-Up Converter
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IFC representation for RectangularTorus #14

Closed Supporting closed 8 years ago

Supporting commented 8 years ago

Currently, RectangularTorus primitives get tessellated and are represented as IfcConnectedFaceset. Find a suitable representation that represents the torus more efficient and information conserving.

Supporting commented 8 years ago

A natural representation of the rectangular torus is revolving a rectangle in three-dimensional space about an axis coplanar with the rectangle. In IFC, this can be achieved using IfcRevolvedAreaSolid + IfcRectangleProfileDef :white_medium_square:

Tool support is moderate:

Here a simple generated IFC file used for testing: rectangulartorus-revolved-rectangle.zip

rectangular-torus-tekla