Decimate in IFC files

Why if I do a decimate in a ifcWall, apply, Save Representation and save the Ifc, when I reopen the file the changes of the decimate don't appears?

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  • Is your IfcWall using a Tesselation representation or a vertical layer representation ?

  • I've no idea. I'm working on reducing the size of the ifc files with decimate. But in some ifc it works and in others it doesn't.

  • @OGutierrez Hi, why are the walls causing the IFC to be so large/heavy? I have observed that it is excessively detailed windows, doors, furniture, fittings and fixtures that are often a problem. @Gorgious question about tesselation v vertical layers needs to be answered first.
    I always think 'how many vertices? meaning, if someone created a fieldstone wall from a point cloud and classified it as an IfcWall then that would be a lot of vertices, a bit of an extreme example I know :)

  • The following is also a nice tool to find those highly faceted objects in the model.

  • I think decimate only works with tessellated geometry.
    See the following to determine if geometry is a tessellation

    You can also convert an object to a tessellation, but more times than not, that will increase the file size.

    NigelMassimoGorgiousemiliotasso
  • Thanks! With tessellation the changes to ifc files are saved. Sometimes the size isn't smaller but the number of faces is.

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