How does SketchUp export the attribute’Material’ to IFC?
If the material is applied at the face level of a component as advocated by SketchUp only a default material, which is the status at the component level, is exported to IFC.
How should material be applied for IFC export?
Hi, in my experience, if you “paint” a group or component it’s color or texture will export with the .ifc correctly, if however you “paint” only a given face or two in a group or component, then there is no export of that color or texture… Hope that helps.
Best regards
So for the glass of a window; it needs to be a group or a component, coloured like glass from the outside of the component, but it can also be inside another component that is coloured.
Usually if I get problems I just color the groups inside and leave my top level group uncoloured.
And standard advice from sketchup on colouring dont apply, as they dont fit with the ifc logic, I guess.