#### 8.6.3.9 IfcFacetedBrep

| Facettierte Boundary Representation

The IfcFacetedBrep is a manifold solid brep with the restriction that all faces are planar and bounded polygons.

| NOTE Use of IfcFacetedBrep is restricted for boundary representation models with planar surfaces only. Those surfaces are implicitly represented by the bounding polygons. The diagram shows the topological and geometric representation items that are used for faceted breps. Each IfcCartesianPoint, used within the IfcFacetedBrep shall be referenced three times by an IfcPolyLoop bounding a different IfcFace.
Figure 109 — Diagram showing the use of IfcFacetedBrep |

> NOTE Definition according to ISO/CD 10303-42:1992
> A faceted B-rep is a simple form of boundary representation model in which all faces are planar and all edges are straight lines. Unlike the B-rep model, edges and vertices are not represented explicitly in the model but are implicitly available through the poly loop entity. A faceted B-rep has to meet the same topological constraints as the manifold solid B-rep.

> The faceted B-rep has been introduced in order to support the larger number of systems that allow boundary type solid representations with planar surfaces only.

> NOTE Entity adapted from manifold_solid_brep defined in ISO 10303-42.

> HISTORY New entity in IFC1.0

Informal Propositions:

1. All the bounding loops of all the faces of all the shells in the IfcFacetedBrep shall be of type IfcPolyLoop.
2. All vertices shall be referenced by all polyloops, sharing the vertex. I.e., each Cartesian point shall be references by at least three polyloops.

XSD Specification:

<xs:element name="IfcFacetedBrep" type="ifc:IfcFacetedBrep" substitutionGroup="ifc:IfcManifoldSolidBrep" nillable="true"/>
<xs:complexType name="IfcFacetedBrep">
<xs:complexContent>
<xs:extension base="ifc:IfcManifoldSolidBrep"/>
</xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>

EXPRESS Specification:

ENTITY IfcFacetedBrep

| SUBTYPE OF (IfcManifoldSolidBrep);

END_ENTITY;

Inheritance Graph:

ENTITY IfcFacetedBrep

| ENTITY IfcRepresentationItem

| INVERSE

LayerAssignment | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcPresentationLayerAssignment FOR AssignedItems;
StyledByItem | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcStyledItem FOR Item;

| ENTITY IfcGeometricRepresentationItem

| ENTITY IfcSolidModel

| DERIVE

Dim | : | IfcDimensionCount := 3;

| ENTITY IfcManifoldSolidBrep

Outer | : | IfcClosedShell;

| ENTITY IfcFacetedBrep

END_ENTITY;

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