Moe_90 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Hello everyone, i hope you are doing well. when i try to export the model in IFC 4, it exports all geometries that is made by hardscape tool (Belag/Weg tool in the german Version) all in white, with no material or color (see the pictures in the attachement for better understanding of what i mean) only simple objects or pre-made symbols do have colors. is there a reason for that? how can i export the wanted colors/textures with the IFC model? thanks in advance. 1 Quote Link to comment
shorter Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 If you want textures to export use a different file format like .fbx. IFC is a BIM format, not a rendering format. Geometry + data only. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Moe_90 Posted September 4, 2023 Author Share Posted September 4, 2023 you are right, if you look at the IFC model, you will see some elements has colors, also the building form the the architect has colors. my question is, how can i assinge colors to Hardscape instead of it being plain white. is there and option to do that? and how to do it? Quote Link to comment
shorter Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 how are you viewing the IFC? This is probably a property set in the ifc viewer, rather than native to the ifc entity. Quote Link to comment
Moe_90 Posted September 6, 2023 Author Share Posted September 6, 2023 i am using BIMCollab as viewing software i can assign colors to IFC entities in IFC viewer using the filter options, but the IFC entity itself will be white i read about IFC 4 and it has the ability to read colors assigned to and Object, and it works well when i creat a 3D object and fill it with solid color, but when i use hardscape tool to create ground cover, it export the geometry with white colors, and it ignores the fill color i choose in vectorworks, and i have no idea why it happens and how to overcome that Quote Link to comment
Moe_90 Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 Update: i have got in contact with service select team in Vectorworks, and the told me that up until now, that feature isn't supported, yet, and maybe in the future it will be there. Quote Link to comment
aage.langedrag Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/105541-ifc-export-with-separated-components/&do=findComment&comment=478337 Quote Link to comment
Moe_90 Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Thanks very much, that looks very promissing to explore and try out. Quote Link to comment
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