IFC data bloat in document.xml

[mikeprice99]

Is this desired behaviour?

In a project with several walls, doors and windows, I note that in the document.xml for each IFC element the IFCType field contains the full list of IFC types as a CustomEnumList (All 173 of them).

Also the IFCData field appears to contain an HTML list of attributes.

To see what I mean unzip a FreeCAD file and search the document.xml for "Actuator".


OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.21826 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 19d37ec5df63ca83d9ae20db6fc87f8ad913b8ab
Python version: 3.6.8
Qt version: 5.12.1
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/United Kingdom (en_GB)

[yorik]

You are right, this is not good...
Maybe we should create another enum property type that stores its value in a separate file, that could be reused across instances...