IfcX and IfcLite projects

[ReD_CoDE]

IFC Modernization : Relationships

Is it possible to develop a new IFC based on just end entity? I mean a much shallower tree. [NewIFC] For instance, IFC just has end entities like IfcProject IfcProjectLibrary IfcSite IfcBuilding IfcBuildingStory IfcSpace IfcZone IfcActor IfcOccupant So on And drop all behind entities and just end entities (single entities) have types, rules, functions, and “simplified relationships” Kind regards, Ehsan

What would you like to see most in the "modernization" of IFC?

Happy to hear this Yorik, good job I see the final output which is STEP files, and say: OK! Let’s accept that all are happy with STEP at the output How can we have “shallower tree” and “single entities” and “simplified relationships” inside the schema. The output can be this: #1=IFCPERSON($,$,'Yorik van Havre',$,$,$,$,$); #2=IFCORGANIZATION($,'uncreated.net',$,$,$); #3=IFCPERSONANDORGANIZATION(#1,#2,$); #4=IFCAPPLICATION(#2,'0.19 build 16944 (Git)','FreeCAD','118df2cf_ed21_438e_a41'); #5=IF…

What would you like to see most in the "modernization" of IFC?

It is true that you need 5 lines for something that could be said in one (Yorik, FreeCAD, date), but that’s how IFC works… Any 2D profile is also made of 10, 15 lines when it could in theory be only one (a list of points, basically), it’s hard to imagine that could be changed easily. The format is made for modularity (you can easily reuse any of the “pieces” anywhere else) rather than compactness The idea of being able to synthesize is attractive, though… (something like: IFCOWNERHISTORYCOMPAC…