IfcRelConnectsStructuralElement

Definition from IAI: The one-to-one relationship assigns a structural member (as instance of IfcStructuralMember or its subclasses) to a physical element (as instance of IfcElement or its subclasses) to keep the association between the design or detailing element and the structural analysis element.

Both, the IfcElement and the IfcStructuralMember, may involve any number (zero, one, or many) associations between physical and analytical element. Multiple instances of IfcRelConnectsStructuralElement can therefore be used to reflect the many-to-many nature of the association between physical and analytical elements.

> HISTORY New entity in Release IFC2x Edition 3.

EXPRESS specification:

ENTITY IfcRelConnectsStructuralElement
SUBTYPE OF ( | IfcRelConnects);
RelatingElement | : | IfcElement;
RelatedStructuralMember | : | IfcStructuralMember;
END_ENTITY;

Attribute definitions:

RelatingElement | : | The physical element, representing a design or detailing part, that is connected to the structural member as its (partial) analytical idealization.
RelatedStructuralMember | : | The structural member that is associated with the element of which it represents the analytical idealization.

Inheritance graph

ENTITY IfcRelConnectsStructuralElement;
ENTITY IfcRoot;
GlobalId | : | IfcGloballyUniqueId;
OwnerHistory | : | IfcOwnerHistory;
Name | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
Description | : | OPTIONAL IfcText;
ENTITY IfcRelationship;
ENTITY IfcRelConnects;
ENTITY IfcRelConnectsStructuralElement;
RelatingElement | : | IfcElement;
RelatedStructuralMember | : | IfcStructuralMember;
END_ENTITY;