IfcCurtainWall

Definition from ISO 6707-1:1989: Non load bearing wall positioned on the outside of a building and enclosing it.

Definition of IAI: Exterior wall of a building which is an assembly of components, hung from the edge of the floor/roof structure rather than bearing on a floor. Curtain wall is represented as a building element assembly and implemented as a subtype of IfcBuildingElement that uses an IfcRelAggregates relationship.

> HISTORY New Entity in IFC Release 2.0

Property Set Use Definition:

The property sets relating to the IfcCurtainWall are defined by the IfcPropertySet and attached by the IfcRelDefinesByProperties relationship. It is accessible by the inverse IsDefinedBy relationship. The following property set definitions specific to the IfcCurtainWall are part of this IFC release:

- Pset_CurtainWallCommon: common property set for all curtain wall occurrences

Geometry Use Definitions:

The geometric representation of IfcCurtainWall is given by the IfcProductDefinitionShape, allowing multiple geometric representations. Independent geometric representations, as described below, should only be used when the IfcCurtainWall is not defined as an aggregate. If defined as an aggregate, the geometric representation is the sum of the representations of the components within the aggregate.

Local placement

The local placement for IfcCurtainWall is defined in its supertype IfcProduct. It is defined by the IfcLocalPlacement, which defines the local coordinate system that is referenced by all geometric representations.

- The PlacementRelTo relationship of IfcLocalPlacement shall point (if given) to the same IfcSpatialStructureElement that is used in the ContainedInStructure inverse attribute or to a referenced spatial structure element at a higher level.
- If the relative placement is not used, the absolute placement is defined within the world coordinate system.

If the IfcCurtainWall establishes an aggregate, then all contained elements (defined by the IsDecomposedBy inverse attribute) shall be placed relative to the IfcCurtainWall.ObjectPlacement.

Geometric Representation

Currently, the use of 'BoundingBox', 'SurfaceModel', 'Brep' and 'MappedRepresentation' representations of IfcCurtainWall are supported. The conventions to use these representations are given at the level of the supertype, IfcBuildingElement.

EXPRESS specification:

ENTITY IfcCurtainWall
SUBTYPE OF ( | IfcBuildingElement);
END_ENTITY;

Inheritance graph

ENTITY IfcCurtainWall;
ENTITY IfcRoot;
GlobalId | : | IfcGloballyUniqueId;
OwnerHistory | : | IfcOwnerHistory;
Name | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
Description | : | OPTIONAL IfcText;
ENTITY IfcObjectDefinition;
INVERSE
HasAssignments | : | SET OF IfcRelAssigns FOR RelatedObjects;
IsDecomposedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelDecomposes FOR RelatingObject;
Decomposes | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDecomposes FOR RelatedObjects;
HasAssociations | : | SET OF IfcRelAssociates FOR RelatedObjects;
ENTITY IfcObject;
ObjectType | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
INVERSE
IsDefinedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelDefines FOR RelatedObjects;
ENTITY IfcProduct;
ObjectPlacement | : | OPTIONAL IfcObjectPlacement;
Representation | : | OPTIONAL IfcProductRepresentation;
INVERSE
ReferencedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelAssignsToProduct FOR RelatingProduct;
ENTITY IfcElement;
Tag | : | OPTIONAL IfcIdentifier;
INVERSE
HasStructuralMember | : | SET OF IfcRelConnectsStructuralElement FOR RelatingElement;
FillsVoids | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelFillsElement FOR RelatedBuildingElement;
ConnectedTo | : | SET OF IfcRelConnectsElements FOR RelatingElement;
HasCoverings | : | SET OF IfcRelCoversBldgElements FOR RelatingBuildingElement;
HasProjections | : | SET OF IfcRelProjectsElement FOR RelatingElement;
ReferencedInStructures | : | SET OF IfcRelReferencedInSpatialStructure FOR RelatedElements;
HasPorts | : | SET OF IfcRelConnectsPortToElement FOR RelatedElement;
HasOpenings | : | SET OF IfcRelVoidsElement FOR RelatingBuildingElement;
IsConnectionRealization | : | SET OF IfcRelConnectsWithRealizingElements FOR RealizingElements;
ProvidesBoundaries | : | SET OF IfcRelSpaceBoundary FOR RelatedBuildingElement;
ConnectedFrom | : | SET OF IfcRelConnectsElements FOR RelatedElement;
ContainedInStructure | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelContainedInSpatialStructure FOR RelatedElements;
ENTITY IfcBuildingElement;
ENTITY IfcCurtainWall;
END_ENTITY;