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Link external documents to IFC elements- good practice ?

  1. B by bdamay on 3 Jan 2024, edited 3 Jan 2024 #

    Hi everyone,

    I have external documentation (technical documentation for window for example - pdf files from suppliers - external url links, Quotes ...). I wish to link them directly to my IFC projects. (And, in my dreams, right click open them directly from BlenderBIM or IfcJs viewer)

    I sure can link Elements Guid to my documents in an external database but i wonder if there is a better way the other way around ? An IfcEntity that is designed to do that ? (IfcLink ? IfcDocumentation ? i can't really figure )

    I would be grateful for an advice on what is the good practice to achieve this.

    Thanks in advance

  2. M by Massimo on 3 Jan 2024 # +2 votes

    @bdamay i'm not an expert but i think that create a document and link it to the product is the way to go. Afaik every document has a URI that identifies it univocally.

  3. J by JanF on 3 Jan 2024 # +4 votes
  4. B by bdamay on 3 Jan 2024 #

    Thanks for your input @Massimo

    I guess what you proposed is sounds good - and here's how i tested it so far in BlenderBIM.

    I first add one pdf document reference in Project Overview TAB - (I renamed the "Unnamed" in "external documents" as i understand it is a container)

    Then i added document reference onto my object in the object metadata panel.

    I didn't get how to add the document reference directly from "Object Metadata", but, as it is, this kind of process seems fine.

    Thank you

    Benoit

  5. B by bdamay on 3 Jan 2024 #

    Thanks for the links @JanF,

    I didn't see your post while i was writing mine.

    It seems to confirm what i previously figured, as the document link is to be set from project overview panel for it to be used in object metadata.

    Is that right ?

    Cheers,

    Benoit

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