BimProperties – Bricsys Support and Help Center

Creates and manages property definitions in a dialog box. Organizes properties in property sets.

BIM properties are included in IFC export.

Accessing the Command

Commandline: BIMPROPERTIES

Quad: BIM | Properties

Ribbon: Data | Database | Properties

Toolbar: BIM Toolbar | BIM Databases

: BimProperties

Displays a dialog box:

The BIM properties are saved in the *.bsyslib project database. See Project Info in the User Guide.

Command Options

Option	Description
Namespace	Properties exist in a namespace. Two namespaces are available: IFC2x3: IFC properties are read-only. Id: This field is empty and cannot be edited. Label: This field cannot be edited. Visible: Defines whether the IFC2x3 properties are visible in the Properties panel. User: Id: Name of the userspace. This field is not editable. Label: The label of the namespace is used in the properties tree. If the Label field is empty, the Id is used instead. Visible: Defines whether the namespace properties are visible in the Properties panel.
	Allows filtering the property tree. Type a search string in the field. Only properties of which the Id or the Label contains the search string display. The properties tree is filtered as you type.
IFC2x3 namespace
	The IFC2x3 properties cannot be edited. You can only control the visibility of the various property sets. To control the visibility of an IFC property set: Select IFC2x3 namespace. Select the property set. Set the Visible property of the property set to Yes.
User namespace
Add Property Set	Allows adding a property set in the current namespace. Click the button to add a new property set. Do the following: Type a name in the Id field. Type a name in the Label field. The Label name appears in the properties tree. If the Label field is empty, the Id name displays. Set the Per Instance property (not implemented yet). Set the Visible property. Defines whether the properties in the property set are visible in the Properties panel. Select the building elements the property set applies to. All entities which are classified this way get the property assigned automatically. Available categories and building elements are the same as in the BimClassify command. Expand a category, then check building elements. Click a category checkbox to select all building elements in that category Click the All button to select all building elements in all categories. Click the None button to uncheck all building elements in all categories
Add Property	Allows adding a property to the currently selected property set. Select a property set in the properties tree, then click the button to add a new property. Do the following: Type a name in the Id field. Type a name in the Label field. The Label name appears in the properties tree. If the Label field is empty, the Id name displays. (optional) Type a description in the Description field. Select the property Type. The options are: Boolean: an ON or OFF value. Integer: a whole number between -2147483648 and 2147483647. Real: an approximation of a real number. String: a sequence of characters, can be both numbers and letters.
Delete	Deletes the selected Property or Property set.