IFC file wont open in Freecad

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Steven Spies
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IFC file wont open in Freecad

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IFC file wont open in Freecad - any suggestions
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Steven Spies wrote:IFC file wont open in Freecad - any suggestions
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Re: IFC file wont open in Freecad

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hi

so i installed both from stable and dev versions (as below) and tried to open up few ifc files i exported from revit, as well as some sample files i found on the web (from xbim project). all seems to be giving out import error

"...importIFC.py , line 322..."

either if i "open" or use import, the error is the same. is it a bug or issues with revit's ifc files?

thanks in advance.

OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6706 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-16
Hash: f86a4e411ff7848dea98d7242f43b7774bee8fa0
Python version: 2.7.8
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.10958 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: df1e2642d0f1b7e43f2f0e0f66159804bea58681
Python version: 2.7.8
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.1.0
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Re: IFC file wont open in Freecad

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Hello buckroger,

Welcome to the forum.

According to the wiki page Arch IFC:
The importer is still a work in progress, and depends on an external piece of open-source software, called IfcOpenShell, which is not bundled with FreeCAD and must be installed on your system.
Have you installed it?
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Re: IFC file wont open in Freecad

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NormandC wrote:Have you installed it?
The official version was too old, and IFCOpenShell was a bit tricky to compile so on Windows FreeCAD is bundled with both the release and developer snapshots.
@buckroger can you post one of the troublesome files?
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