Madaster Common Property Set

Last updated: February 05, 2026

When using BIM, properties need to be in a certain format for Madaster to recognize them. More details on the Madaster relevant properties, see our page on Preparing BIM IFC source files.

The Madaster custom property set (CPset) is an aid for using these properties, instead of declaring them independently. Once the CPset is uploaded into a project, a number of parameters can be filled out. There is no obligation to fill out all but if the custom property set with the name CPset_Madaster is present on an IFC element and within this dataset, the properties below are filled in, then these values ​​of the properties are used within Madaster and other properties are then ignored.

E.g. if a user entered a value in the Madaster CPset property “Length”, while the standard BaseQuantity “Length” has also values, Madaster will prioritise the Madaster CPset.

CPset_Madaster

Additional information

MaterialOrProductId
Identifier of the material or product in a Madaster database.

externaldatabaseId
Identifier of the product or Material in an external database connected to Madaster.

GTIN
Global Trade Item Number of the product.

ArticleNumberGLN
The articleNumber|GLN combination.

MaterialOrProductName
If filled, this material/productname can be used to refer to search criteria.

MaterialOrProductRatio
Split element into children if MaterialOrProductRatio is available

Classification
For example: enter the NL/SfB-Table1 value (2 or 4 digits).

Phase
Value for the building phase.

Reuse
Enter a number in the format 0.01 (1%) and 1.0 (100%). Should be above 0.0 and a maximum of 1.0.

Waste codes
The wastecode format that needs to be used is as followed: code:percentage:nature:cw-outcome:oo-outcome;code:percentage:nature:cw-outcome:oo-outcome;

This can be for example: 16 02 09*:0.1:Hazardous:70:70;17 01:0.25:Inert:60:60;

Following options are also available:

• code:percentage; In this scenario nature will be default for the belonging code and outcomes will be empty.
• code:percentage:nature; In this scenario the default nature will be overwritten by user input.
• code:percentage:nature:cw-outcome; In this scenario all 4 will be filled, but no overordering outcome.

Following scenario’s will result in failure:

• Wrong code
• Double code (in case of multiple waste codes)
• Percentage zero, negative or above 1 (100%)
• Wrong nature
• Wrong outcome
• Outcome for CW that is only valid for OO and vice versa
• Outcome that does not match with selected nature
• Total of all wastecodes above 1 (100%)

AssumedConstructionWaste
Enter a number in the format 0.01 (1%) and 1.0 (100%). Should be above 0.0 and a maximum of 1.0.

OverOrdering
Enter a number in the format 0.01 (1%) and 1.0 (100%). Should be above 0.0 and a maximum of 1.0.

Madaster Revit property set (CPset_Madaster)

The files (“01_Revit shared parameter file_Madaster” and “02_User Defined PropertySet_Madaster”) for user defined property sets can be downloaded in the Download Section. The fist file contains the shared parameters that can be loaded into any Revit project, while the second file needs to be selected when exporting a Revit model to properly export the Madaster Pset.

Madaster ArchiCAD property set (CPset_Madaster)

The file (“01_Archicad propertyfile_madaster”) for user defined property sets can be downloaded in the Download Section. This file contains the shared parameters that can be loaded into any ArchiCAD project.