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3D text in IFC (from IFC2perceel)

1. M by magicalcloud_75 on 13 Jan 2025, edited 1 Feb 2025 #

   Hi

   I need to add text to clarify site numbers in a hard-coded fahion. I'm wondering what a fool-proof way is to assign 3D rendered text in Blender to IFC. I've tried a few things but .. nothing works. You have the 'Annotation' class but I think this does support 3D text. I do hope there is something more in IFC than this proxy solids method.

   Any guidance would be appreciated. Files come from the work of @Jan Brouwer

   https://bim-tools.github.io/perceel2ifc/

   

   

2. M by magicalcloud_75 on 21 Jan 2025, edited 21 Jan 2025 #

   Parcels together. Anybody got a clue how to add modeltext as IFC?

   

3. T by theoryshaw on 21 Jan 2025 #

   I don't think there's a method. You could convert your 3d tessellated text to 'extrusions', so there's less file bloat.

4. M by magicalcloud_75 on 21 Jan 2025 #

   Yhe part of getting text 3D is the easy part. Any idea what ifc categry to use?

5. T by theoryshaw on 21 Jan 2025 #

   Oh, maybe IfcAnnnotation?

   or IfcVirtualElement?

6. C by condur on 22 Jan 2025 # +2 votes

   @magicalcloud_75 said:

   Yhe part of getting text 3D is the easy part. Any idea what ifc categry to use?

   IfcAnnotion would be the right classification, but bear in mind not many IFC viewers support it, so it will not be shown. If VirtualElement not good either, you can go with IfcBuildingElement[USERDEFINED]: Annotation - or something like that.

7. M by magicalcloud_75 on 1 Feb 2025, edited 1 Feb 2025 #

   I fixed it with in BricsCAD as annotion. Thanks!

   

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