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jyrkioraskari / IFCtoLBD

IFCtoLBD converts IFC (Industry Foundation Classes STEP formatted files into the Linked Building Data ontologies.
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First quick analysis of the IFC model before asking the user to select which entities they want in the output #53

Open maximelefrancois86 opened 1 year ago

maximelefrancois86 commented 1 year ago

It could be relevant to ask the users which entities they are (or are not) interested in in the output.

Documented as part of Isaac Fatokun, Arun Raveendran Nair, Thamer Mecharnia, Maxime Lefrançois, Victor Charpenay, Fabien Badeig and Antoine Zimmermann, (2023) "Modular Knowledge integration for Smart Building Digital Twins", LDAC 2023

Section 5.1, item 2_pruneObjects.py.

Describe the solution you'd like

The tool could rapidly analyse the content of the IFC, and display check boxes to the user for each type of entity that exists in the IFC file (+ number of instances). The user could uncheck the boxes they are not interested in

Additional context

For example for the use case described in the paper above, We only need a few type of elements for our use case. This step keeps triples with RDF terms whose IRI contain one of: ”site”, ”building”, ”storey”, ”space”, ”wall”, ”window”, ”ifcowl_ifcfurniture”, ”electricappliance”. It prunes triples with RDF terms whose IRI contain one of ”airterminal”, ”beam”, ”cablecarrierfitting”, ”cablecarriersegment”, ”column”, ”covering”, ”curtainwall”, ”ductfitting”, ”ductsegment”, ”flowterminal”, ”ifcowl_ifcopeningelement”, ”lightfixture”, ”member”, ”plate”, ”railing”, ”ramp”, ”roof”, ”slab”, ”stair”, ”stairflight”

jyrkioraskari commented 1 year ago

I added a user interface option to let the user select which element types he or she wants to export. This will be released in version 2.43.0,