Translations:Arch IFC/12/en

All IfcProduct-based entities from IFC2x3 or IFC4 files will be imported into the FreeCAD document. The IFC preferences settings allow you to set how the IFC objects are imported: as full parametric Arch objects (the geometry will, as much as possible, be editable in FreeCAD), as non-parametric Arch objects (objects will carry IFC information and properties but will not be editable), as non-parametric Part shapes (the geometry will be faithfully rendered but IFC information will be discarded), or as one Part shape per floor (one all-in-one object, just for reference). Each of these types looses some information over the previous one, but is lighter on resources, which allows to open bigger files. A last type allows to discard entirely the importing of Arch objects, which is useful for structural analytic models.