Hi everyone！a PhD student in construction management

S by shanmama on 11 Feb 2020, edited 10 Apr 2020 # +1 votes

I am a PhD student in construction management. I am currently learning IfcOpenShell-Python. There are not many practical examples of this software at present, I hope I can learn a lot from everyone.

M by Moult on 11 Feb 2020 # +2 votes

Welcome @shanmama !

All of the code written for IfcOpenShell is open-source, so there are a lot of examples of it in use in the repository. In particular, look at:

src/ifcbimtester/features/steps/steps.py

src/ifccobie/cobie.py

src/ifcblenderexport/ifc2ca.py

src/ifcblenderexport/blenderbim/export_ifc.py and import_ifc.py

If you want a particular example of something, let us know and we can write an example for you :)

S by shanmama on 8 Mar 2020 #

Wow！it is essential to our freshmen.

And I found these examples are most of C++ files. Has it some python files? And the functions in IfcOpenShell are the same between C++ and Python?

Thx !

S by shanmama on 8 Mar 2020 #

Like these examples

S by StefanBoeykens on 10 Apr 2020 #

AFAIK, these C++ examples don't compile anymore in recent IfcOpenShell versions (v0.6.0+).

In the past, I pasted them in a new C++ project and could run most of them.

M by Moult on 10 Apr 2020 # +2 votes

@StefanBoeykens is right - I think many of the C++ examples need to be updated.

In addition, I've now documented a bit more of the Python bindings, which you can see here: https://blenderbim.org/docs/ifcopenshell-python/api-documentation.html