This post I’m going to go into more detail about how the Industry Foundation Classes (i.e. templates of things in construction and facilities management: see IFC for the Layman Part 1) are built up. They aren’t, as you may think, a long flat list of separate templates but rather a big connected family tree of parent and child templates.
Bare in mind that throughout this post we’re only referring to how the templates themselves are organised, we’re not going to talk about how they’re filled in or how filled in templates relate to each other to build up a description of an actual construction or facilities management project. That’s coming up in Part 3.
Inheritance
From our parents we can inherit all sorts of things from genetics to, if we’re lucky, money. IFC templates can be parents as well that pass information to their children (just don’t ask how IfcBabies are…
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