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The buildingSMART Data Dictionary repository, where we publish the documentation, examples and more. We don't publish here the data, the source code of the bSDD service or the front end of the website.
https://www.buildingsmart.org/users/services/buildingsmart-data-dictionary/
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Materials vs Classifications #57

Closed lemoinet closed 1 year ago

lemoinet commented 1 year ago

What is the difference between Materials and Classifications in the bSDD JSON import model

Wouldn't it be easier to treat Materials as Classifications with ClassificationType=Material? Because as stated in the documentation "A Material is similar to a Classification."

It also resolves immediately "Please note that the "code" of both Material(s) and Classification(s) must be unique within the domain. You can't have a Domain with Material with code "abcd" and a Classification with the same code "abcd"."

atomczak commented 1 year ago

@lemoinet yes, that is true. We already discussed that on forums (https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/changes-to-bsdd-data-model-names/4753) and at workshops and that change has already been pushed to test, waiting to be deployed on production. For few months we will support both old and new approach.