# IfcOpenShell - IFC toolkit and geometry engine # Copyright (C) 2021 Dion Moult # # This file is part of IfcOpenShell. # # IfcOpenShell is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # IfcOpenShell is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with IfcOpenShell. If not, see . import ifcopenshell import ifcopenshell.util.element def remove_material(file: ifcopenshell.file, material: ifcopenshell.entity_instance) -> None: """Removes a material If the material is used in a material set, the corresponding layer, profile, or constituent is also removed. Note that this may result in a material set with zero items in it, which is invalid, so the user must take care of this situation themselves. :param material: The IfcMaterial entity you want to remove :return: None Example: .. code:: python # Create a material aluminium = ifcopenshell.api.material.add_material(model, name="AL01", category="aluminium") # ... and remove it ifcopenshell.api.material.remove_material(model, material=aluminium) """ inverse_elements = file.get_inverse(material) file.remove(material) # TODO: Right now, we we choose only to delete set items (e.g. a layer) but not the material set # This can lead to invalid material sets, but we assume the user will deal with it for inverse in inverse_elements: if inverse.is_a("IfcMaterialConstituent"): file.remove(inverse) elif inverse.is_a("IfcMaterialLayer"): file.remove(inverse) elif inverse.is_a("IfcMaterialProfile"): file.remove(inverse) elif inverse.is_a("IfcRelAssociatesMaterial"): history = inverse.OwnerHistory file.remove(inverse) if history: ifcopenshell.util.element.remove_deep2(file, history) elif inverse.is_a("IfcMaterialProperties"): if file.schema != "IFC2X3": props = inverse.Properties else: # only IfcExtendedMaterialProperties have properties in IFC2X3 props = getattr(inverse, "ExtendedProperties", None) props = props or [] for prop in props: file.remove(prop) file.remove(inverse) elif inverse.is_a("IfcMaterialDefinitionRepresentation"): for representation in inverse.Representations: for item in representation.Items: file.remove(item) file.remove(representation) file.remove(inverse)