Use this panel to inspect the attributes, properties and relations of one or more parts.
Open this panel by clicking the Inspect icon at the top right corner of your screen.
If your selection consists of multiple IFC classes or if your selection contains nested parts, a total count of selected products will be shown, of which you can show a more detailed overview. In this example, 1 roof is selected as well as 1 railing consisting of members and plates.
Below this overview, all shared properties of the selected products are displayed.
Shared properties are properties that apply to all products in the current selection. Typical examples of shared properties will be Name (every product has a name), Model (every product exists within a model), Class (every product has an IFC class), ...
Properties that do not apply to all products in the selection will not be displayed here. For example, the property set Pset_RailingCommon as defined by the IFC schema only applies to Railings, not Roofs. Therefore, it will not be shown under the shared properties.
To display all properties of the selected objects of a specific IFC class, click that class at the top of the Inspect panel. Property sets can be expanded and collapsed, and you can use the Filter text field to filter on properties or property values.
When selecting a single part, its name will be displayed as well as a little information icon, which allows you to copy that object's GUID - a globally unique identifier - to your clipboard.
When selecting multiple parts, the number of parts having a specific property value will be displayed next to that property value. In the image below, 10 windows are selected. They are all part of the same site and the same building. 5 of these windows are located on the 3rd floor and the other 5 are located on the 4th floor. There are three different types of windows in the selection set. Clicking the number next to a property value will reduce the selection to only those parts that have that property value.
If you have editing rights to the model, you can click the property value and change the value, or click the ellipsis icon next to a property to either clear their value, edit their value or remove the property altogether.
Use the filter at the top of the Inspect panel to easily find one or more specific attributes or properties you are interested in.
The properties in the inspect panel are divided into two main categories:
- General information about the selection, such as spatial location (site - building - floor - space), material, type, model, class and code. If any of this information is missing you can click the + icon next to the General header to add a new relation. Note that to add a code or a material to your selection, the code/material should first be defined in the project library.
- Other properties of the selection. These can be either IFC-defined property sets or custom property sets defined in a custom property library.
You can add properties to your selection by clicking the + icon next to the Properties subcategory. This will open the libraries from which you can add property definitions. By default the following libraries are available:
- IFC properties library, as defined by buildingSMART. Only those property sets that are applicable to the products you have selected will be displayed.
- Custom imported properties, containing properties and property sets defined in the models that were imported in this project.
- Custom property libraries, which can be defined in the project dashboard.
Click a property set to add it to the selected products, or click the chevron next to the property set name to expand the property set, allowing you to select individual properties. If a property definition already has a grey checkmark next to its name, that means this property is already applied to the selected products.
Once you have selected the property definitions you want to add to your selection, click the Add button on the bottom right. You can now optionally fill in some values for these selected properties and save these values, or skip this step and fill in the property values later.
A chain link symbol next to a property value indicates that this property is not applied to the selected instance, but to its overarching type. In the following image, the Family property is applied to the selected chair directly, and the Family Name property is applied to the Chair - Dining type object, which is the type of the selected chair. Currently, type properties cannot be edited.
