5.1.3.29 IfcRelAssociates
ABSTRACT This definition may not be instantiated
5.1.3.29.1 Semantic definition
The association relationship IfcRelAssociates refers to sources of information (most notably a classification, library, document, approval, constraint, or material). The information associated may reside internally or externally of the project data. There is no dependency implied by the association.
Further external information may be provided to the tank equipment (as subtype of IfcProduct) in terms of its classification and instruction documents, the source of the additional information is held external to the project data model.Association relationships can be established to objects (occurrences as subtypes of IfcObject) or to types (as subtypes of IfcTypeObject). Some associations (such as approval, or document) may also be applied to property templates (as subtypes of IfcPropertyDefinition).
The classification information for the storage tank equipment may be associated to the IfcTankType (subtype of IfcTypeObject), defining the specific information for all occurencies of that tank in the project. Therefore the association of the Uniclass notation 'Pr_60_50_10' may be associated by a subtype of IfcRelAssociates to the type information. The classification information for a particular space within a building may be associated to the IfcSpace object (subtype of IfcObject), defining a particular occurrence of space. Therefore the association of the DIN notation 'NF 1.5' may be associated by a subtype of IfcRelAssociates to the object.The association relationship establishes an association between one to many objects or property templates and the associated information. The subtypes of IfcRelAssociates establish the particular semantic meaning of the association relationship.
New entity in IFC2x. Entity has been changed into an ABSTRACT supertype5.1.3.29.2 Entity inheritance
5.1.3.29.3 Attributes
| # | Attribute | Type | Description |
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| IfcRoot (4) | |||
| 1 | GlobalId | IfcGloballyUniqueId |
Assignment of a globally unique identifier within the entire software world. |
| 2 | OwnerHistory | OPTIONAL IfcOwnerHistory |
Assignment of the information about the current ownership of that object, including owning actor, application, local identification and information captured about the recent changes of the object, Only the last modification is stored - either as addition, deletion or modification. The attribute has been changed to be OPTIONAL. |
| 3 | Name | OPTIONAL IfcLabel |
Optional name for use by the participating software systems or users. For some subtypes of IfcRoot the insertion of the Name attribute may be required. This would be enforced by a where rule. |
| 4 | Description | OPTIONAL IfcText |
Optional description, provided for exchanging informative comments. |
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| IfcRelAssociates (1) | |||
| 5 | RelatedObjects | SET [1:?] OF IfcDefinitionSelect |
Set of object or property definitions to which the external references or information is associated. It includes object and type objects, property set templates, property templates and property sets and contexts. The attribute datatype has been changed from IfcRoot to IfcDefinitionSelect. |
5.1.3.29.4 Concept usage
| Concept | Usage | Description | |
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| IfcRoot (2) | |||
| Revision Control | General |
Ownership, history, and merge state is captured using IfcOwnerHistory. |
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| Software Identity | General |
IfcRoot assigns the globally unique ID. In addition it may provide for a name and a description about the concept. |
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5.1.3.29.5 Formal representation
ENTITY IfcRelAssociates
ABSTRACT SUPERTYPE OF (ONEOF
(IfcRelAssociatesApproval
,IfcRelAssociatesClassification
,IfcRelAssociatesConstraint
,IfcRelAssociatesDocument
,IfcRelAssociatesLibrary
,IfcRelAssociatesMaterial
,IfcRelAssociatesProfileDef))
SUBTYPE OF (IfcRelationship);
RelatedObjects : SET [1:?] OF IfcDefinitionSelect;
END_ENTITY;