# IFC Export Material

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/ifc-export-material/230474>\
**Category:** Pro\
**Tags:** ifc\
**Created:** [May 21, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/ifc-export-material/230474 "2023-05-21T21:45:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![cgee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/cgee/32/180231_2.png) [@cgee](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/cgee)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/ifc-export-material/230474/1 "2023-05-21T21:45:42Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![paddyclown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/paddyclown/32/192339_2.png) [@paddyclown](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/paddyclown)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/ifc-export-material/230474/2 "2023-05-22T12:56:48Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Odd\_Haakon\_Byberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d26b3c/32.png) [@Odd\_Haakon\_Byberg](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Odd_Haakon_Byberg)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/ifc-export-material/230474/3 "2023-05-22T19:22:37Z")

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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.