Material
Material (Material) · IfcHopper > Object
Creates an IFC material (IfcMaterial). Connect it to objects, types or material sets; on write an existing material with the same name and values is reused.
Inputs
| Name | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name (N) * | Text | item | Material name, e.g. Concrete C30/37. |
| Description (D) | Text | item | Material description (IFC4 and later). |
| Category (Cat) | Text | item | Material category, e.g. concrete, steel, aluminium, block, brick, stone, wood, glass, gypsum, plastic, earth (IFC4 and later). |
| Colour (Col) | Colour | item | Surface colour of the material (IfcMaterialDefinitionRepresentation), shown on geometry without a colour of its own; alpha sets the transparency. |
| Property Sets (PS) | IFC Property Set | list | Property sets of the material (IfcMaterialProperties, IFC4 and later), e.g. Pset_MaterialCommon. Sets with the same name: the last one is kept. |
* Required.
Outputs
| Name | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Material (Mat) | IFC Material | item | IfcHopper material. |