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• Get Model Summary

  Overview of the loaded model(s): file names with IFC schema and length unit (mm/m/in/ft — also THE answer to "what units does the project use"), total element count, storeys, and the IFC types present with their counts. Call this first to understand what is in the model.

• Find Elements

  Search the loaded model for elements by IFC type, name substring and/or storey. Returns a count and a small sample. Use before acting when unsure what matches.

• Get Element Info

  Read one element in full: IFC type, name, GlobalId, storey, and all its property-set and quantity values. Use the numeric id from find_elements or get_selection.

• Get Selection

  Read what the user currently has selected in the 3D view (ids, types, names).

• Get Spatial Tree

  The spatial hierarchy of the loaded model(s): IfcProject → site → building → storey → space, each node with its id, IFC class, name, elevation and how many elements it directly contains. get_model_summary says WHAT is in the model; this says how it is ORGANISED — call it to learn the real storey/space names before filtering by storey, or to answer "what is the structure of this project". Deep or wide trees are capped and the response says what was left out.

• Get Relations

  How one element is tied to the rest of the model: the spatial path from IfcProject down to its container, its aggregation parent and parts, its type object, materials, classifications, the groups / systems / zones it belongs to, and its openings, fillings and connections. get_element_info reads an element's OWN data (properties, quantities); this reads its RELATIONSHIPS. Use it for "what is this part of", "what is inside it", "what is it connected to".

• List Materials

  Every material used in the loaded model(s) with the number of elements carrying each one, busiest first. THE answer to "what materials are in this model". To SEE them use colorize_by {source:"material"}; to act on one use filter_elements with a material rule.

• Get Ifc Schema

  Look up the IFC STANDARD itself, not the loaded model: what a class is — its EXPRESS parent, whether it is abstract, the PredefinedType values it allows, its attributes, its companion type entity and the standard property sets that apply to it. Pass propertySet instead to read one Pset_*/Qto_* definition: every property with its data type and allowed values. Call it before retype_element / set_attribute / set_property when unsure a class, attribute or PredefinedType is valid, rather than guessin

• Hide Elements

  Hide from view every element matching the selector (type/name/storey).

• Show Elements

  Un-hide (reveal) the elements matching the selector.

• Show All

  Un-hide all user-hidden elements (restores visibility).

• Hide Selection

  Hide whatever the user currently has selected.

• Isolate Selection

  Show only the current selection and hide everything else.

• Isolate Elements

  Show ONLY the elements matching the selector and hide everything else (isolation).

• Clear Isolation

  Clear any active isolation so the whole model is visible again.

• Select Elements

  Select (highlight) the elements matching the selector and frame them in view.

• Measure Distance

  Measure and draw the straight-line distance between the bounding-box centres of two elements, given their numeric ids (from find_elements).

• Set Section

  Enable a section (clipping) plane through the model.

• Clear Section

  Disable the section plane.

• Colorize By

  Colour every element by a criterion: IFC type, name, storey, material, or a property value.

• Color Elements

  Paint elements a specific colour (leaves the rest as they are). Target them by a type/name/storey selector, OR by a "rules" filter array (same rule shapes as filter_elements — e.g. colour by a property value condition), OR give neither to paint the WHOLE model. Repeat to build a multi-colour view; later calls win on overlap. For "X red, everything else green": first color the whole model green (no selector), then color the X subset red.

• Clear Colors

  Remove any custom colouring.

• Reset View

  Reset the view: reveal all hidden elements, clear isolation, remove colouring, and disable the section plane.

• Build Schedule

  Build a SCHEDULE (a real table: chosen columns, optional grouping) in the Tables panel and return it. Use this when the answer is a table the user wants to see or export — "ведомость", schedule, take-off, "list every door with its size and storey" — and aggregate_elements when the answer is a single number or a short per-group roll-up. Columns are attributes ({attr:"Name"|"Type"|"GlobalId"|"Tag"|"Description"|"Storey"|"Model"}) or a property/quantity ({set:"Qto_WallBaseQuantities", name:"NetVolu

• Run Clash

  Run a clash detection over the loaded model(s) and return the result. mode "matrix" (default) intersects the configured discipline sections — when none are set up it seeds the standard discipline matrix first, so it works on a model whose Clash panel was never opened. mode "duplicates" finds elements sitting on top of each other (the same object modelled twice, the classic federation error). Returns totals plus the first clashes with both sides identified by model, IFC type and name; the Clash p