#### 6.1.3.11 IfcWall

| Wand
| Mur

The wall represents a vertical construction that bounds or subdivides spaces. Wall are usually vertical, or nearly vertical, planar elements, often designed to bear structural loads. A wall is however not required to be load bearing.

> NOTE Definition according to ISO 6707-1: vertical construction usually in masonry or in concrete which bounds or subdivides a construction works and fulfils a load bearing or retaining function.

> NOTE There is a representation of walls for structural analysis provided by a proper subtype of IfcStructuralMember being part of the IfcStructuralAnalysisModel.

> NOTE An arbitrary planar element to which this semantic information is not applicable (is not predominantly vertical), shall be modeled as IfcPlate.

A wall may have openings, such as wall openings, openings used for windows or doors, or niches and recesses. They are defined by an IfcOpeningElement attached to the wall using the inverse relationship HasOpenings pointing to IfcRelVoidsElement.

There are three entities for wall occurrences:

- IfcWallStandardCase used for all occurrences of walls, that have a non-changing thickness along the wall path and where the thickness parameter can be fully described by a material layer set. These walls are always represented geometrically by an 'Axis' and a 'SweptSolid' shape representation (or by a 'Clipping' geometry based on 'SweptSolid'), if a 3D geometric representation is assigned. In addition they have to have a corresponding IfcMaterialProfileSetUsage assigned.
- IfcWallElementedCase used for occurrences of walls which are aggregated from subordinate elements, following specific decomposition rules expressed by the mandatory use of IfcRelAggregates relationship.
- IfcWall used for all other occurrences of wall, particularly for walls with changing thickness along the wall path (e.g. polygonal walls), or walls with a non-rectangular cross sections (e.g. L-shaped retaining walls), and walls having an extrusion axis that is unequal to the global Z axis of the project (i.e. non-vertical walls), or walls having only 'Brep', or 'SurfaceModel' geometry.

> HISTORY New entity in IFC1.0

## Plumbing System Design

Instance diagram

Identity

The Identity concept applies to this entity.

Exchange |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
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Import |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | R |  |  | R | R | R
Export |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | R |  |  | R | R | R

Path Connectivity

The Path Connectivity concept applies to this entity as shown in Table 38.

RelatedElement | Description
--- | ---
IfcWall | Walls with equal or lower priority are connected at RelatedElement.
Table 38 — IfcWall Path Connectivity

Exchange |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
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Import |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | - | - |
Export |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | R |  |  |  |  | R

Voiding

The Voiding concept applies to this entity as shown in Table 39.

RelatedOpening | Description
--- | ---
IfcOpeningElement | Indicates a partial recess or full opening, which may or may not be filled by another element.
Table 39 — IfcWall Voiding

Exchange |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Import |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | - |  |
Export |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | R |  |  | - | R | R

XSD Specification:

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

EXPRESS Specification:

ENTITY IfcWall

| SUPERTYPE OF(ONEOF(IfcWallElementedCase, IfcWallStandardCase))

| SUBTYPE OF (IfcBuildingElement);

PredefinedType | : | OPTIONAL IfcStrippedOptional;

| WHERE

CorrectPredefinedType | : | NOT(EXISTS(PredefinedType)) OR (PredefinedType <> IfcWallTypeEnum.USERDEFINED) OR ((PredefinedType = IfcWallTypeEnum.USERDEFINED) AND EXISTS (SELF\IfcObject.ObjectType));
CorrectTypeAssigned | : | (SIZEOF(IsTypedBy) = 0) OR ('IFCSHAREDBLDGELEMENTS.IFCWALLTYPE' IN TYPEOF(SELF\IfcObject.IsTypedBy[1].RelatingType));

END_ENTITY;

Attribute Definitions:

PredefinedType | : | Predefined generic type for a wall that is specified in an enumeration. There may be a property set given specifically for the predefined types. NOTE The PredefinedType shall only be used, if no IfcWallType is assigned, providing its own IfcWallType.PredefinedType. IFC4 CHANGE The attribute has been added at the end of the entity definition.

Formal Propositions:

CorrectPredefinedType | : | Either the PredefinedType attribute is unset (e.g. because an IfcWallType is associated), or the inherited attribute ObjectType shall be provided, if the PredefinedType is set to USERDEFINED.
CorrectTypeAssigned | : | Either there is no wall type object associated, i.e. the IsTypedBy inverse relationship is not provided, or the associated type object has to be of type IfcWallType.

Inheritance Graph:

ENTITY IfcWall

| ENTITY IfcRoot

GlobalId | : | IfcGloballyUniqueId;
OwnerHistory | : | OPTIONAL IfcOwnerHistory;
Name | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
Description | : | OPTIONAL IfcText;

| ENTITY IfcObjectDefinition

| INVERSE

HasAssignments | : | SET OF IfcRelAssigns FOR RelatedObjects;
Nests | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelNests FOR RelatedObjects;
IsNestedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelNests FOR RelatingObject;
HasContext | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDeclares FOR RelatedDefinitions;
IsDecomposedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelAggregates FOR RelatingObject;
Decomposes | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelAggregates FOR RelatedObjects;
HasAssociations | : | SET OF IfcRelAssociates FOR RelatedObjects;

| ENTITY IfcObject

ObjectType | : | OPTIONAL IfcStrippedOptional;

| INVERSE

IsDeclaredBy | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDefinesByObject FOR RelatedObjects;
Declares | : | SET OF IfcRelDefinesByObject FOR RelatingObject;
IsTypedBy | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDefinesByType FOR RelatedObjects;
IsDefinedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelDefinesByProperties FOR RelatedObjects;

| ENTITY IfcProduct

ObjectPlacement | : | OPTIONAL IfcObjectPlacement;
Representation | : | OPTIONAL IfcProductRepresentation;

| INVERSE

ReferencedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelAssignsToProduct FOR RelatingProduct;

| ENTITY IfcElement

Tag | : | OPTIONAL IfcStrippedOptional;

| INVERSE

ConnectedTo | : | SET OF IfcRelConnectsElements FOR RelatingElement;
IsInterferedByElements | : | SET OF IfcRelInterferesElements FOR RelatedElement;
InterferesElements | : | SET OF IfcRelInterferesElements FOR RelatingElement;
HasOpenings | : | SET OF IfcRelVoidsElement FOR RelatingBuildingElement;
ProvidesBoundaries | : | SET OF IfcRelSpaceBoundary FOR RelatedBuildingElement;
ConnectedFrom | : | SET OF IfcRelConnectsElements FOR RelatedElement;
ContainedInStructure | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelContainedInSpatialStructure FOR RelatedElements;

| ENTITY IfcBuildingElement

| INVERSE

| ENTITY IfcWall

PredefinedType | : | OPTIONAL IfcStrippedOptional;

END_ENTITY;

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