#### 8.4.3.7 IfcRepresentationItem

| Item de représentation
| Repräsentationselement

The IfcRepresentationItem is used within an IfcRepresentation (directly or indirectly through other IfcRepresentationItem's) to represent an IfcProductRepresentation. Most commonly these IfcRepresentationItem's are geometric or topological representation items, that can (but not need to) have presentation style infomation assigned.

> NOTE Definition according to ISO/CD 10303-43:1992
> A representation item is an element of product data that participates in one or more representations or contributes to the definition of another representation item. A representation item contributes to the definition of another representation item when it is referenced by that representation item.

> NOTE The assignment of a style is only applicable to the subtypes IfcGeometricRepresentationItem, IfcMappedItem and some selected subtypes of IfcTopologicalRepresentationItem (IfcVertexPoint, IfcEdgeCurve, IfcFaceSurface).

In case that presentation style information is applied, it can be either applied by an IfcStyledItem, or by an assignment to an IfcPresentationLayerWithStyle. If both are present, and both style assignments include the same subtype of IfcPresentationStyle, then the style assigned by IfcStyledItem takes priority.

Figure 27 shows an instance diagram explaining the use of IfcStyledItem and IfcPresentationLayerWithStyle to apply presentation styles.

> EXAMPLE The assignment of style information by a styled item and a presentation layer with style. Since the presentation styles are different, IfcCurveStyle and IfcSurfaceStyle, both are applied to the geometric representation item.

Figure 27 — Representation item style

Figure 28 shows in instance diagram explaining the override of IfcPresentationLayerWithStyle by IfcStyledItem to apply presentation styles.

> EXAMPLE The assignment of style information by a styled item and a presentation layer with style. Since the presentation styles for curve style are aprovided by both, the IfcCurveStyle provided by the IfcStyledItem overrides the IfcCurveStyle provided by the IfcPresentationLayerWithStyle

Figure 28 — Representation item style override

> NOTE Entity adapted from representation_map defined in ISO 10303-43.

> HISTORY New entity in IFC2x.

> IFC2x3 CHANGE The inverse attributes StyledByItem and LayerAssignments have been added. Upward compatibility for file based exchange is guaranteed.

XSD Specification:

<xs:element name="IfcRepresentationItem" type="ifc:IfcRepresentationItem" abstract="true" substitutionGroup="ifc:Entity" nillable="true"/>
<xs:complexType name="IfcRepresentationItem" abstract="true">
<xs:complexContent>
<xs:extension base="ifc:Entity"/>
</xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>

EXPRESS Specification:

ENTITY IfcRepresentationItem

| ABSTRACT SUPERTYPE OF(IfcGeometricRepresentationItem);

| INVERSE

END_ENTITY;

Attribute Definitions:

Inheritance Graph:

ENTITY IfcRepresentationItem

| ENTITY IfcRepresentationItem

| INVERSE

END_ENTITY;

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