Hi everyone,
I am trying to get bounding box dimensions of elements in my IFC files. I use the following code to achieve this:
def get_bbox_local(file, entity):
settings = ifcopenshell.geom.settings()
elements = file.by_type(entity)
for element in elements:
shape = ifcopenshell.geom.create_shape(settings, element)
geometry = shape.geometry
vertices = get_vertices(geometry)
bbox = get_bbox(vertices)
min_coords, max_coords = bbox
# Extract individual min and max values for x, y, z
minx, miny, minz = min_coords
maxx, maxy, maxz = max_coords
# Calculate dimensions
length_x = maxx - minx
width_y = maxy - miny
height_z = maxz - minz
# Store into DataFrame
data = {
'Length_X': [length_x],
'Width_Y': [width_y],
'Height_Z': [height_z]
}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
print(df)Unfortunately for some reason objetcs not parallel to XYZ global coordinates get wrong dimensions. This is however happening incosistently - e.g. IfcDoors and IfcWalls always turn out correct, but IfcSlabs and IfcBeams don't. Does anyone have any idea how this could be solved?