IfcPresentableText

Natural language names
Presentable Text
Change log
ItemSPFXMLChangeDescription
IFC2x3 to IFC4 4.0.0.0
    IfcPresentableTextMOVEDSchema changed from IFCPRESENTATIONRESOURCE to IFCPRESENTATIONAPPEARANCERESOURCE.
Semantic definitions at the type
Type definition

IfcPresentableText is a text string used to capture the content of a text literal for the purpose of presentation. The IfcPresentableText can include multiple lines of text, for which the line feed character LF, 0x0A, should be used to separate lines.

NOTE  The non printable characters are converted within the standard exchange format ISO 10303-21 (STEP physical file format), commonly the \X\09 represents the TAB, and \X\0A the LF character.

NOTE  The IfcPresentableText is an entity that had been adopted from ISO 10303, Industrial automation systems and integration—Product data representation and exchange, Part 46: Integrated generic resources: Visual presentation.

NOTE  Entity adapted from presentable_text defined in ISO10303-46.

HISTORY  New type in IFC2x2.

Formal representations
XML Specification
 <xs:simpleType name="IfcPresentableText">
  <xs:restriction base="xs:normalizedString"/>
 </xs:simpleType>
EXPRESS Specification
TYPE IfcPresentableText = STRING;
END_TYPE;

Link to EXPRESS-G diagram EXPRESS-G diagram

References  References: IfcTextLiteral

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