Error on tessellation request in IFC2X3

IfcTriangulatedFaceSet/IfcPolygonalFaceSet were introduced in
Fix #7992: IFC4 and do not exist in IFC2X3. Previously, requesting an
IfcTessellatedFaceSet representation in an IFC2X3 file silently
fell back to a faceted brep after unassigning material sets.
Add a guard in the update_representation operator (user-facing
error) and in the add_representation API (ValueError) so the
unsupported request is caught instead of failing silently.

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Ryan Schultz
2026-06-09 07:30:59 -05:00
parent 93c6350e0f
commit bfa2d789f1
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@@ -546,6 +546,13 @@ class UpdateRepresentation(bpy.types.Operator, tool.Ifc.Operator):
objs = [bpy.data.objects[obj_name]] if obj_name else context.selected_objects
self.file = tool.Ifc.get()
# Tessellated face sets (IfcTriangulatedFaceSet/IfcPolygonalFaceSet) were
# introduced in IFC4 and do not exist in IFC2X3. Catch this early so we
# don't silently fall back to a faceted brep after stripping materials.
if self.ifc_representation_class == "IfcTessellatedFaceSet" and self.file.schema == "IFC2X3":
self.report({"ERROR"}, "Tessellated face sets are not supported in IFC2X3.")
return {"CANCELLED"}
for obj in objs:
# TODO: write unit tests to see how this bulk operation handles
# contradictory ifc_representation_class values and when