diff --git a/src/serializers/GltfSerializer.cpp b/src/serializers/GltfSerializer.cpp
index 1f674d02bd..9c2754f2fe 100644
--- a/src/serializers/GltfSerializer.cpp
+++ b/src/serializers/GltfSerializer.cpp
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ void GltfSerializer::write(const IfcGeom::TriangulationElement<real_t>* o) {
 		// glTF validator complains about identity matrices
 		node["matrix"] = matrix_flat;
 	}
+	node["name"] = object_id(o);
 	
 	int current_mesh_index;