The logical wall to wall connection connects two walls without defining a connection geometry. Walls can be connected from the start, end and path, e.g. the start point of the first wall is connected to the path of the second wall. This type of connection assumes that the walls are defined by their baselines and it actually connects the baselines of the walls. There is no explicit wall baseline defined in the IFC model, but there is a implicit baseline that can be derived from the wall's relative placement and the wall geometry. Please see the concept of wall for further details.
'This type of connections is not very good for defining connections between multi layered walls, because the way the layers are connected or clipped can't be defined. Logical connections are also no very good for defining a connection where 3 or more walls are connected at a single point.
View considerations
- Arch. design >> Quantities take off / cost estimating
- Could be used to assign resources to the task of making as wall connection between two walls where the type of the walls is know.
- Design to design
- Mostly useful for capturing the design intent that walls should be connected.
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Used by views
- Arch. design >> Quantities take off
- CAD / visualization
IfcRelConnectsPathElements
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OwnerHistory
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IfcConnectionEnum
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AtEnd
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