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Ifcopenshell-api from C#?

1. B by BIMrookie92 on 5 Sep 2022, edited 6 Sep 2022 #

   Hi,

   At my workplace, we are quite fan of using Rhino&Grasshopper, and we build our own logic into Grashopper components written in C#. I am wondering if there is possible to somehow use the ifcopenshell-api written in Python from C#? The idea is that the codebase can still stay in C#, and users wont need to manually/locally install python. I ask since my best idea currently is to maybe write many smaller python scripts calling the API, and compile those python scripts into .exe files and call those from C#, in order to create kind of a wrapper around the ifcopenshell-api. Any insight is appreciated:)

2. B by BIMrookie92 on 6 Sep 2022 #

   I thought about this a bit more, and creating wrapper functions was a stupid idea, as I can't rely on reading the entire .ifc file everytime I want to perform some changes. That will be incredibly slow..

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