Defining or Changing Property Set Templates

If you want to exchange data in accordance with the IFC standard, you need a basic set of properties. However, creating a property set template from scratch is not only time-consuming but also prone to errors. Therefore, you cannot do this in Bimplus.

But you can create your own property set templates by copying the predefined property set templates and customizing these copies to suit your needs and requirements. All predefined property set templates contain the minimum of property sets required in accordance with the IFC standard. This ensures that all property set templates derived comply with the minimum requirements in accordance with the IFC standard.

To create your own property set template, copy one of the predefined property set templates and customize the copy by changing or adding property sets.

Copying property set templates

To copy a property set template

1. Open the list box for the property set template (on the left side of the table header) and select the template that you want to copy.

2. Click Property set templates options to the right of the list box and select Copy.

3. You can see the Copy dialog box. Enter a name for the new property set template and click COPY.

Changing property set templates

To change a property set template

1. Open the list box for the property set template (on the left side of the table header) and select the template copied.

2. Go to the Object column and select the object type or object class for which you want to change one or more property sets.

3. Edit the property sets as described in “Changing property sets or defining new property sets“.

Deleting property set templates

You can delete user-defined property set templates only. The predefined property set templates cannot be deleted.

Important!
You can delete a user-defined property set template only if this template is not used by a project of the team.

To delete a property set template

1. Open the list box for the property set template (on the left side of the table header) and select the template that you want to delete.

2. Click Property set templates options to the right of the list box and select Delete.

3. Click DELETE to confirm the prompt.