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Make Placement of IfcTextLiteral optional

Open Moult opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Placement is currently mandatory for IfcTextLiteral. This seems inconsistent. I propose to make it optional (and therefore default to an identity matrix) which is the same behaviour for other types of representation items.

Moult avatar Jul 24 '23 05:07 Moult

Seems fair. +1

In addition, there is

DEPRECATION The use of IfcTextLiteral is deprecated and it will be made abstract.

  • Is that still actual? Why would we only allow placing text within an extent. Why not allow from a point?
  • If so, I'd propose to make that change along with your suggestion.

aothms avatar Jul 24 '23 05:07 aothms

Agreed, text from a point would be far more common than extents.

Moult avatar Jul 24 '23 05:07 Moult