IfcSpatialStructureElementType

Definition from IAI: The element type (IfcSpatialStructureElementType) defines a list of commonly shared property set definitions of a spatial structure element and an optional set of product representations. It is used to define an element specification (i.e. the specific element information, that is common to all occurrences of that element type).

> NOTE The product representations are defined as representation maps (at the level of the supertype IfcTypeProduct, which gets assigned by an element occurrence instance through the IfcShapeRepresentation.Item[1] being an IfcMappedItem.

A spatial structure element type is used to define the common properties of a certain type of a spatial structure element that may be applied to many instances of that type to assign a specific style. Spatial structure element types (i.e. the instantiable subtypes) may be exchanged without being already assigned to occurrences.

> NOTE The spatial structure element types are often used to represent catalogues of predefined spatial types for shared attributes, less so for sharing a common representation map.

The occurrences of subtypes of the abstract IfcSpatialStructureElementType are represented by instances of subtypes of IfcSpatialStructureElement.

> HISTORY New entity in Release IFC2x Edition 3.

EXPRESS specification:

ENTITY IfcSpatialStructureElementType
ABSTRACT SUPERTYPE OF | (IfcSpaceType)
SUBTYPE OF ( | IfcElementType);
END_ENTITY;

Inheritance graph

ENTITY IfcSpatialStructureElementType;
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 IfcTypeObject;
ApplicableOccurrence | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
HasPropertySets | : | OPTIONAL SET [1:?] OF IfcPropertySetDefinition;
INVERSE
ObjectTypeOf | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDefinesByType FOR RelatingType;
ENTITY IfcTypeProduct;
RepresentationMaps | : | OPTIONAL LIST [1:?] OF UNIQUE IfcRepresentationMap;
Tag | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
ENTITY IfcElementType;
ElementType | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
ENTITY IfcSpatialStructureElementType;
END_ENTITY;