Is There an Open API to Generate BCF with Snapshots from Clash?

gabriel_makedrive

Hi,

I'm trying to generate a clash from an IFC file and export the results as a BCF with a snapshot. I've already managed to generate the BCF but haven't found a viable way to create the snapshot. Is it necessary to manually change the view for the user and take a screenshot? Or is it possible to process this entirely on the backend?

Moult

This is currently only implemented in Blender. We don't yet have a "snapshot" rendering method that works without Blender.

Bimlooser

I've already managed to generate the BCF but haven't found a viable way to create the snapshot.

Can you please give me some hints about creating BCF?
Thanks

gabriel_makedrive

@Moult said:
This is currently only implemented in Blender. We don't yet have a "snapshot" rendering method that works without Blender.

Just to confirm and try to understand what i'm doing wrong, the process in Blender to generate a BCF from clash:

• Import a clashset
• Check the "Create snapshots"
• Execute IFC Clash
• Change export name to end with ".BCF"
  
  

That's the error i get:

Any solution to make this work?

ejs

@Moult said:
This is currently only implemented in Blender. We don't yet have a "snapshot" rendering method that works without Blender.

And this is exactly what I need to be able to enrich the imported ToDos from Trimble Connect. The viewpoint, camera settings and the snapshot are provided by TC.

gabriel_makedrive

@Bimlooser said:

I've already managed to generate the BCF but haven't found a viable way to create the snapshot.

Can you please give me some hints about creating BCF?
Thanks

For now i'm using the bcf-api-xml (https://github.com/bimdata/BCF-API-XML-translator), can create and read bcfzip files
For create you can use the function to_zip()