Manage IFC property definitions

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Property is an individual piece of information that belongs to one or more property sets to which Electrical sets specific values in IFC export. The property definitions include information about the property data type and name as well as information about the Electrical information the property is linked to. If the Electrical value is empty or there are no defined data fields, an empty value will be exported whenever the property has been defined as to be exported.

The global filter makes it possible to search for information using freely defined criteria, without taking wildcard characters * or ? into account. Furthermore, you can group and filter the information.

The items in different databases and functions related to them are divided on tabs:

  • Standard databases holds the default property definitions provided with the application which will be overwritten whenever the application is updated. You can copy property definitions from this tab to your own shared databases.

    • Open – Open the selected property definition for viewing or editing. By clicking the button, you can copy the definition to Shared databases.

    • Copy to shared – Create a copy of the selected property definition to Shared databases. Edit the properties as necessary.

    • Add to project – Add the selected property definitions to the project. Alternatively, add a property definition by double-clicking it. Project's property definitions are shown on the Project IFC properties tab at the bottom part of the IFC property definition management dialog.

    • Update selected – Update modifications made in the database to the respective property definitions in the project.

  • Shared databases holds user's own property definitions that can be shared and edited. If another user edits the data simultaneously, you can update the grid to show the changes by clicking the button.

    • New – Add a new property definition.

    • Edit – Edit the properties of an existing property definition.

    • Copy to shared – Create a copy of the selected property definition to Shared databases. Edit the properties as necessary.

    • Remove – Remove the selected property definition.

    • Add to project – Add the selected property definitions to the project. Alternatively, add a property definition by double-clicking it. Project's property definition are shown on the Project IFC properties tab at the bottom part of the IFC property definition management dialog.

    • Update selected – Update modifications made in the database to the respective property definitions in the project.

    • Import – Import property definitions from other databases. See Import project data from database.

  • The Other project tab enables importing property definitions from another project database (EDBProject.sqlite or EDBProject.mdb).

    • Copy to shared – Create a copy of the selected property definition to Shared databases. Edit the properties as necessary.

    • Add to project – Add the selected property definitions to the project. Alternatively, add a property definition by double-clicking it.

    • Update selected – Update modifications made in the database to the property definitions in the project.

    • Select other project – Select another project database (EDBProject.sqlite or EDBProject.mdb) to use as data source.

The Packages section is located below the database grids. With packages, you can bundle multiple items together and then easily add them to the project at once.

You can add a package with all the items to the project by double-clicking it.

  • New – Add a new package. You can then add items into the packages by dragging them from the database grids.

  • Edit – Edit an existing package. You can remove rows from packages by right-clicking the row and selecting Remove package row.

  • Copy – Create a copy of the selected package. All the items in the package will also be copied.

  • Remove – Delete the selected package.

  • Import packages – Import data from other projects.

The bottom part of the IFC property definition management dialog shows property definitions currently in the project and the default property definitions common to all projects:

  • Project IFC properties tab:

    • New – Add a new property definition to the project database. You can also add a property definition by selecting an existing property definition, clicking Edit and then in the dialog clicking the (Copy) button.

    • Edit – Edit the properties of an existing property definition. The changes will only be saved to the property definition in the project.

    • Remove from project – Remove a property definition not used in the project.

    • Copy to defaults – Add the selected property definitions to the default database (EDBUser.sqlite or EDBUser.mdb).  When a new project is created, property definitions will automatically be added to that project.

  • Default project IFC properties tab:

    • New – Add a new property definition to the project database. You can also add a property definition by selecting an existing property definition, clicking Edit and then in the dialog clicking the (Copy) button.

    • Edit – Edit the properties of an existing property definition. The changes will only be saved to the property definition in the project.

    • Remove from project – Remove a property definition not used in the project.

    • Add to project – Add the selected property definitions to the project.

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