Several of us have been involved in conversations over the last couple of years about the “modernization” of IFC. I looked carefully to see if there was already a thread here addressing this issue specifically, and couldn’t find one, so early apologies if this is already addressed elsewhere. First,…

Dear Sergej, “IFCCLOSED2DPROFILECOMPACT” concept represents a familiar structure we see in the world, especially related to 2D and 3D Javascript geometries: https://processing.org http://processingjs.org You know, and all we know, with current IFC structure we won’t achieve “a real” digitization…

Relax, not trying to push a standard change here, just playing with the idea, which is what this topic proposes… In any case, providing alternative, compact ways to “reduce” (maybe REDUX is cooler than COMPACT :thinking: ) some “bunches” of data does not mean everybody would be forced to use it…

I was referring you to existing possibilities. I think IfcIndexedPolyCurve does what you ask and more. Why would you need another redundant definition in a schema that is already quite substantial. Just means less implementers will support it.

yes, the IfcIndexedPolyCurve provides you with this capability. See attached a document that was created to justify the addition of a new class. And please have in mind, that IFC is currently used by >250 software applications worldwide, with millions of IFC files around - so one can’t just “do and …

A new generation of IFC tools that are cross platform (I’m looking at ya, IfcDoc!) Is good! A new generation that relies on an entire web stack as an application platform ? Not a good idea! Feel free to provide a web UI, but don’t couple the code to the web. Even web devs don’t do this anymore for s…

Dear friends, Your feedback is highly appreciated and will help us to improve IFC and build a new interactive IfcDoc [image] IfcX and IfcLite projects Developers [IfcXtreme%20Concept%20--%20Ehsan%20Azari] IfcXtreme base concepts come from cross-platform visual programmi…

Thomas, I want to be super clear that I’m not proposing breaking existing implementations. And it’s possible that I’m conflating two discussions: the improvement of the IFC schema, and the development of new technologies around bringing the standard to cloud workflows. These can be separate discuss…

I say let’s drop IfcRoot, IfcOwnerHistory, and IfcObjectDefinition, …, and just have the end one For instance an IfcWindow is just an entity → We can with “CLASSIFICATIONS” say that a window is an object, a product, an element, a building element [image] IFC for relational datab…

I appreciate your energy in suggesting to reduce the number of types in the schema. But I think you don’t understand that many of those types are “abstract”. They represent levels in the inheritance hierarchy but are not the types that are stored in IFC. For example, you won’t find an instance of IF…

Dear Ian, My suggestion is clear: I say in output, Ifc file (SPF) the output is 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');…

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

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

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