Fixed errors and little improvement

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Massimo Fabbro
2022-10-20 22:40:04 +02:00
committed by Thomas Krijnen
parent f0266a16a3
commit cb0ad67bcc
@@ -166,26 +166,35 @@ Get the distribution system of an element
# For example, it might be part of a Chilled Water system # For example, it might be part of a Chilled Water system
print("This pipe is part of the system", system.Name) print("This pipe is part of the system", system.Name)
Copy an entity Copy an entity instance
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Copy an entity is possible in different ways, depending on the task. Copy an entity instance is possible in different ways, depending on the task.
.. code-block:: python .. code-block:: python
root.copy_class ifcopenshell.api.run("root.copy_class", ifc_file, product = entity_instance_to_copy)
This is high level and makes sensible assumptions about copying things like properties, quantities, openings, and other relationships. This is high level and makes sensible assumptions about copying things like properties, quantities, openings, and other relationships.
.. code-block:: python .. code-block:: python
util.element.copy ifcopenshell.util.element.copy(ifc_file, element)
This is for shallow copies. This is for shallow copies.
.. code-block:: python .. code-block:: python
util.element.copy_deep ifcopenshell.util.element.copy_deep(ifc_file, element, exclude = None)
This is for deep graph copy. This is for deep graph copy.
It is also possible to copy an entity instance from two different file, like the following example:
.. code-block:: python
f = ifcopenshell.open(...)
g = ifcopenshell.file(schema=f.schema)
g.add(f.by_type(...)[0])
Note that, in this case, it does copy over recursively, factor in length unit conversion if both files f and g have project length unit defined, but it does not make any other attempts at resulting in a valid file.
Create a simple model from scratch Create a simple model from scratch
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