Entity

class compas_ifc.entities.Entity(entity, model)

Bases: object

Class representing a general IFC entity. Each entity corresponds to a line in IFC file.

Parameters:

entityifcopenshell.entity_instance

modelcompas_ifc.model.Model

Attributes:

ifc_typestr

The IFC type of the entity.

declarationifcopenshell.ifcopenshell_wrapper.schema.declaration

The IFC declaration of the entity.

modelcompas_ifc.model.Model

The model the entity belongs to.

attributesDict[str, Union[str, float, int, list, tuple]]

All the attributes of the entity.

psetsDict[str, Dict[str, Union[str, float, int, list, tuple]]]

All the property sets of the entity.

propertiesDict[str, Union[str, float, int, list, tuple]]

All the properties of all property sets compiled into a single dict.

Methods

__init__
attribute	Get the value of a named attribute.
factory	Factory function for creating an compas_ifc entity object from an Ifc entity, the function finds closest matched class from the bottom of inherentance.
has_attribute	Verify that the entity has a specific attributes.
has_property	Verify that this entity has a specific property.
inheritance	Find the ancestors of the current entity up to the root element.
is_a
print_inheritance	Print the entity inheritance as a nested list.
property	Get the value of the property with the given name.
pset	Get the property set with the given name.
set_attribute	Set the value of a named attribute.
set_attributes	Set the values of multiple attributes.
set_property	Set the value of the property with a given name.
traverse_branch