What Are Components?
Any construction element or Library part having a Building Material consists of one or more components.
•A simple Slab has one Building Material and one component.
•A composite Slab has as many components as it has skins: each skin has a Building Material and each skin is a separate component (even if several skins happen to use the same Building Material).
•In a profile element: each fill (as seen in Profile Editor) represents a separate component.
•GDL objects work differently. All parts of the object that use the same Building Material are considered a single component. For example, multiple object parts, which all use the same Glass Building Material, are considered as a single component.
Using Component Data in the BIM Model
Component Data can be shown in the following:
•Component List of the Interactive Schedule
•Labels which list Component data
•Exported IFC file
Component Lists
Component Lists are optimized to list information about each component of composite, profile or basic elements: walls, slabs, roofs, morphs, meshes, and/or multi-component profile elements.
A component list can include:
•Properties that are specific to components (see Component Listing Parameters in the Interactive Schedule)
•Any of the Building Material properties (because each component consists of at most one Building Material)
•Naturally, you can add element properties to the list, but these property values will reflect the element-level data (not the component´s data)
Show Classification Data in Component List
Components themselves do not have a classification.
If your Component Scheme includes the Classification parameter: click the pop-up to specify which classification data to show:
•by Element (list the classification of the element that contains the component)
•by Building Material (list the classification of the component´s Building Material)
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