Exciting times! Just a heads up that the BlenderBIM add-on can now export some (not all) structural data to an IFC, and that IFC can be converted into input into Code_Aster for simulation: https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/issues/756 Already, once FreeCAD gains these abilities, we can sha...

Sorry for the late reply, I forgot to post this here. New update! - Documentation added for the context panel - Site objects are now imported - Bugfix to export different types of curve objects - All non-polygonal extrusions now have an Axis representation exported - Material properties are now expo...

This is cross-posted from the buildingSMART thread, FYI :) Yorik and I had a chat about the IFC diff tool - since it is standalone it would be awesome if FreeCAD could parse its output JSON as well to visualise diffs. Also, if you didn't yet see the other thread, Vote for IfcOpenShell and open sourc...

Thomas Krijnen, developer of IfcOpenShell, which powers FreeCAD (and BlenderBIM) has put forward a presentation proposal for the buildingSMART Oslo summit, on the topic of IfcOpenShell and open source authoring workflows - A presentation of the work happening in FreeCAD, BlenderBIM and IfcOpenShell ...

Thanks for the report bitacovir!

This issue was fixed on the 31st Dec from this commit. The fix will be available in the next release of BlenderBIM.

I noticed that XBim has the same issue. I think there is a deeper issue here to investigate, but I'm not sure what yet

Absolutely go right ahead! Feel free to rewrite / remove / improve any of the stuff that I wrote too! You're doing a great job!

This is amazing work, @carlopav! Keep it up!

I have been writing the code to be decoupled from Blender. That way 1) the utilities can be run headlessly by itself, direct from IFC, without need for Blender preprocessing on a BIM server, 2) the utilities, and their outputs can be shared by other projects like FreeCAD, XeoGL, and so on, and 3) Mo...

Just a cross-post about a new BlenderBIM update folks here could be interested in. Please view the original thread for more pictures: https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/presenting-blender-as-a-new-ifc-authoring-tool/1791/65 docexample.PNG - Imports now support styled item colours, and differentiates...

Just a heads-up that mirroring is possible by using a mapped representation, with a non-uniform cartesian transformation scale of -1 along an axis. This has been implemented in Blender with Blender's mirror modifier :) https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/blob/v0.6.0/src/ifcblenderexport/ble...