IFC import: hangs at 'shapes'

[sgrogan]

rockn wrote:
.., launch FreeCAD from a terminal,..

how do i do that?

Shift + Right Click on the bin folder
Choose "open command window here"
Start FreeCAD with "FreeCAD -l"
Do your stuff.
A log file will be written to %appdata%/Freecad/FreeCAD.log