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Trouble getting started in BlenderBIM's Hello World

  1. R by RaphaëlVouilloz on 23 Aug 2023, edited 19 Feb 2024 # +1 votes

    Hello,

    I'd like to follow the demo here, which looks great: https://blenderbim.org/docs/devs/hello_world.html

    I have cloned IfcOpenShell, registered and run the "Live development environment" installation script.

    When I uncomment these three lines (in the IfcOpenShell folder, correct?), the Hello World panel is not happening:

    # Uncomment this line to enable loading of the demo module. Happy hacking!

    # The name "demo" must correlate to a folder name in 'bim/module/'.

    # "demo": None,

    Is this tutorial still supposed to work with the new interface (great by the way)? Thanks

  2. A by Andrej730 on 24 Aug 2023 #

    Hello! Tested it on last build it - it should work:

    Any errors you have in the system console (Window - Toggle System Console if you're not on Mac)?

    When I uncomment these three lines

    To make it work neeed to uncomment just 1 line in the src/blenderbim/blenderbim/bim/init.py:

  3. R by RaphaëlVouilloz on 24 Aug 2023, edited 24 Aug 2023 #

    Thanks for your help! Actually, I think I'm already having problems installing BlenderBIM from the batch script (run as admin) :

  4. T by theoryshaw on 24 Aug 2023 #
  5. R by RaphaëlVouilloz on 24 Aug 2023 #
  6. T by theoryshaw on 24 Aug 2023 #

    looks like you already have cloned IfcOpenShell, so I think you can comment out the following line.

  7. R by RaphaëlVouilloz on 24 Aug 2023, edited 24 Aug 2023 #

    Thanks, indeed I cloned it from github desktop because of this remark :

    Put the script to the folder where IfcOpenShell git repository is located.

    I still have quite the same problem :

  8. T by theoryshaw on 24 Aug 2023 #
  9. R by RaphaëlVouilloz on 25 Aug 2023 #

    Ok, thanks I tried. I pulled the last version of IfcOpenShell, deleted the blenderbim folder you indicated, and reinstalled the latest unstable version of BlenderBIM from scratch. Now the batch script is able to edit some folders (the ones at 10:28).

    But problems still happen running the batch script :

    It doesn't find two directories:

    Warning: Failed to open the file C:\Users\rvouillo\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\blenderbim\bim\data\gantt\jsgant

    Warning: Failed to open the file C:\Users\rvouillo\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\blenderbim\bim\schema\Brick.ttl

    Then when I open Blender, I can't see the BlenderBIM interface even though the addon is activated. When I unclick and click the activation button I get this error:

  10. T by theoryshaw on 25 Aug 2023 #

    hmm.. not sure. sorry.

  11. R by RaphaëlVouilloz on 2 Oct 2023, edited 2 Oct 2023 #

    @theoryshaw said:

    looks like you already have cloned IfcOpenShell, so I think you can comment out the following line.

    Hello, just let you know I could solve the dev installation... that was almost that, thanks

    So if IfcOpenShell is already installed eg. with Github Desktop, we can replace these two lines :

    git clone https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell.git

    cd IfcOpenShell

    by

    cd C:\Users\rvouillo\Documents\GitHub\IfcOpenShell

    with your own path to IfcOpenshell

    Otherwise it seems to work running the batch script (folders are replaced) but it gives this bug in Blender :

  12. M by Moult on 5 Oct 2023 #

    @"RaphaëlVouilloz" would you be interested in a screenshare to go through the steps together from the beginning? That error sounds as though something fundamental isn't setup right. I'm available in the Sydney timezone 9-5pm.

  13. R by RaphaëlVouilloz on 6 Oct 2023 #

    Thanks! As far as I'm concerned it's solved, but yes I can show you what went wrong if it helps clarify. I would be available at 4:30pm (Sydney) on Monday

    In the end the only problem was that I had already cloned IfcOpensShell

  14. M by Moult on 11 Oct 2023 #

    Ah OK, no issues then.

  15. R by RaphaëlVouilloz on 19 Feb 2024, edited 19 Feb 2024 #

    Problem solved on my own sorry for the update

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