Navigating in IFC Project Manager: Attributes and Properties

The right side of IFC Project Manager displays the available IFC Attributes; Properties grouped in Property Sets; and Classification References of any project element you have selected in the tree (in case of multi-selection, the IFC data of the last-selected element are shown).

At the top of the list, the numbers of selected/editable elements are shown.

IFC Property and Attribute values can be set automatically from ARCHICAD properties, parameters, quantities and Library Part parameters, based on the Property Mapping rules defined in the IFC Translator for Export. In IFC Project Manager and in Element Settings, these values are shown with a chain icon (indicating that they have been mapped). However, their value can be modified at the element level as needed.

See Property Mapping for IFC Export.

The display of Attributes and IFC Properties in IFC Project Manager indicate the data status:

BLACK: can be overwritten with a custom value

RED ARROW: A customized value is shown with a red arrow: click it to revert to the original value.

GREY: cannot be modified here in the IFC Project Manager; it can be modified only at its source, where that particular ARCHICAD value comes from. Properties shown in grey are mapped but not editable, because there is a 1-to-1 mapping relationship with ARCHICAD parameters.

Examples: the “Renovation Status” (same as the Renovation Status in ARCHICAD); the “LoadBearing” (same as Structural Function in ARCHICAD); and the “IsExternal” (same as ARCHICAD Position Category items).

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Show only Properties from Active Preview Translator

Use the “Show only Properties from active Preview translator” toggle button to filter as follows:

if it is active, then you will display only those current data that are used in the project (that is, the content according to the Property Mapping preset of the Preview Translator).

if it is inactive, then displayed data will include, in addition to Property Mapping data, the new properties created here and in the Element Settings dialog boxes, as well as custom data that have been added during an import process.

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Activating this button can be useful: if the Property Mapping settings correspond to a particular standard or export requirement (e.g. COBie), then displaying only the preset-defined data makes it much easier to navigate among IFC data, which otherwise are very numerous.

Note: When exporting, the IFC Translator for Export specifies whether the export should include only data as set in the Property Mapping for IFC Export Preset; or all IFC data.

See Property Mapping for IFC Export.

Show Only Items with Values

Use this toggle to display only those data which have assigned values.

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Note: A property whose field is empty, but whose checkbox is enabled, counts as a property that has a value assigned.

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