David Poiron Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 (edited) I have imported an IFC model from a steel fabricator (I believe they may use Tekla, as there are record formats in the file that are prefixed with Tekla). Each object or group of objects has a field "tag" under IfcElementAssembly record, although this record format is not present in the Resource Manager. I would like to find (select) objects or groups of objects in the model using the value in the "tag" field. I've tried to use Custom Selection... but this field does not seem to appear anywhere. Any ideas on how I would do such a selection in VW? Edited August 9, 2018 by David Poiron Added screenshot. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Neil Barman Posted August 11, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 11, 2018 @David Poiron Can you tell what that tag refers to in your particular file? That is, what objects are similarly tagged? Quote Link to comment
David Poiron Posted August 11, 2018 Author Share Posted August 11, 2018 The "tag" field appears to contain a unique object identifier string. One of these identifiers appear next to each object (or group of objects) in the shop drawing set and is tied to the objects in the IFC imported model. What we are hoping for is a way to search for the vectorworks file (IFC imported model) in order to easily locate a particular object using this unique number. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mihail Rizov Posted August 15, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 15, 2018 @David Poiron You can use worksheets to list all tags and then use the rows to get to/select the desired objects. Regards, Mihail Rizov Quote Link to comment
Chad Hamilton HAArchs Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 (edited) Is there a reference file available that provides definitions for ifc data fields? I've looked on the BuildingSmart web page, but can't seem to find it. The page http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/ifc/review/IFC4Add2/ifc4-add2-rv/html/ has definitions from ifc to english - it would be very useful to have an index from english to ifc, to give a sense of where to look for something. Edited August 19, 2018 by Chad Hamilton HAarchs Quote Link to comment
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