BBIM: Modeling Wires

zicklag

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.

Moult

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

zicklag

@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?

Gorgious

Relevant Issues over on github for reference :

https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/issues/3496
https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/issues/3289