Hi, I am a developer and I am not sure if it is possible to attach texture mapping information to ifc files(it is related to my current work). I am told by many people that ifc does not support texture mapping but I found many related webpage saying that ifc actually supports texture mapping. For e…

Just because software does not support it, does not mean the schema does not have the possibility (as you have correctly found in the documentation). Unfortunately, I cannot tell you which viewing software supports textures so that you could test it. :frowning:

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@citystrawman The ISG along with current and previous bSI certification regimes have never pursued wide implementation, testing and certification of textures, even though they have been supported in IFC for some time. The main thrust of IFC support has centered around design coordination (which is n…

@jwouellette It seems that these days many have focused on IFD Which including texture and also “material development” becomes important for “PDT” This is why these days we hear this question constantly And I think if buildingSMART wants IFD and IFC be integrated and work well with each other hav…

Thank you for your explanation.

Problem is that the IFC examples are not even valid: IFCBLOBTEXTURE blob is unreadable in tessellation-with-blob-texture.ifc as it doesn’t contain valid PNG texture The RasterCode element in XML example(ifcblobtexture.htm) has correct value for texture. Also tessellation-with-image-texture.ifc is…

Is it possible to attach texture mapping information to ifc files?

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ReD_CoDE June 21, 2019, 9:51am 3

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Is it possible to attach texture mapping information to ifc files?

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