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BBIM: Modeling Wires

  1. Z by zicklag on 4 May 2024, edited 6 May 2024 #

    Does anybody have any strategies or recommendations for modeling wires in BlenderBIM?

    Using yesterday's nightly build I see there's a create cable tool, but currently it just creates an IFC cable segment class with a cube model representation.

    Ideally I'd like to be able to extrude a line of vertices and have it convert that to a tube, maybe with a bit of NURBS smoothing, almost like the pipe segment, except letting you extrude to make bended wires without creating multiple segment objects.

    I'm guessing it's still work-in-progress, but I wanted to see if anybody had done anything similar yet.

  2. M by Moult on 4 May 2024 # +2 votes

    In theory we have basic functionality around using beveled Blender curves which should write to swept disk solids, but that's about it.

  3. Z by zicklag on 4 May 2024 #

    @Moult said:

    In theory we have basic functionality around using beveled Blender curves which should write to swept disk solids, but that's about it.

    Is there any documentation/guides on how to do that?

  4. G by Gorgious on 6 May 2024 # +3 votes

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