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IfcRepresentationContext

Definition from ISO/CD 10303-42:1992: A representation context is a context in which a set of representation items are related.

Definition from IAI: The IfcRepresentationContext defines the context to which the IfcRepresentation of a product is related.

NOTE  The definition of this class relates to the STEP entity representation_context. Please refer to ISO/IS 10303-43:1994 for the final definition of the formal standard.
HISTORY  New entity in IFC Release 1.5.
IFC2x Edition 3 NOTE  Users should not instantiate the entity IfcRepresentationContext from IFC2x Edition 2 onwards. It will be changed into an ABSTRACT supertype in future releases of IFC.

EXPRESS specification:

ENTITY IfcRepresentationContext
SUPERTYPE OF (IfcGeometricRepresentationContext);
ContextIdentifier  :  OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
ContextType  :  OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
INVERSE
RepresentationsInContext  :  SET OF IfcRepresentation FOR ContextOfItems;
END_ENTITY;

Attribute definitions:

ContextIdentifier  :  The optional identifier of the representation context as used within a project.
ContextType  :  The description of the type of a representation context. The supported values for context type are to be specified by implementers agreements.
RepresentationsInContext  :  All shape representations that are defined in the same representation context.

Inheritance graph

ENTITY IfcRepresentationContext;
ENTITY IfcRepresentationContext;
ContextIdentifier  :  OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
ContextType  :  OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
INVERSE
RepresentationsInContext  :  SET OF IfcRepresentation FOR ContextOfItems;
END_ENTITY;