bSDD -- GUIDs at the field (property) level

[stegh]

@havard.bell

From my impression, the standard IFC Psets fall short in terms of carrying the data that a lot of clients requests, so I suspect that you will soon need to support the individual GUIDs on properties, going forward.

This is certainly true. We’ve been discussing this (mostly internally with @klaus.aengenvoort and some other people) since a few years; - as far as I remember we talked about this with @TLiebich in February 2014, also regarding this related topic: How is a IfcPropertySet related to its IfcPropertySetTemplate? - #2 by stegh

From my point of view: GUIDs would certainly help.

@jonm also supports this… How is a IfcPropertySet related to its IfcPropertySetTemplate? - #4 by stegh

@jonm

Klaus seems to be proposing that we add an optional attribute (reference Id) to an ifc property (which could/should be a guid) that would allow identification of the property. I would certainly support this.