I've managed to take get a FreeCAD geometry to Blender (With Sverchok). It updates when I change it in FreeCAD. Now i want to add it as a void to a beam. Preferably so i can also update it when changi

in those who employ tools such as Blender, FreeCAD, BlenderBIM, or any other open-source software in their architecture programs.

e.g. - " [FreeCAD BIM + Native-IFC] development news by Yorik " ? :D

Thanks for sharing your experience! I highly recommend checking out FreeCAD and looking at IFC files. It is free open-source software that

I added the IFC authoring portion to FreeCad because I saw there was a specific paragraph about DWG and nothing about Native IFC.

Interesting to note that we're mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCAD#Native_IFC_Authoring and https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DCGソフトウェア and https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender

Definitely, just look in how many languages FreeCAD is described on wikipedia.

@bernd is the expert in FEM and Arch/BIM in FreeCAD to my understanding :)

I think it would suit my workflow best to make the connection with FreeCAD and then exporting it to Blender? Is there any way of doing this? Or any other advice?

3. Import in FreeCAD console seems would load this version (rather than FC bundled one)

Definitely you need an ifcopenshell compiled with the same python version of FreeCAD. Not sure why one appimage had py11 and the others not... maybe there was some bug with py11 at that time. Also i'm

@yorik I am not sure the version outcome I reported is that bundled with FreeCAD AppImage I use - as FC seems use 3.11, but ifcopenshell report 3.10.

IfcOpenShell is bundled with the stable installers of FreeCAD. Basically the latest available version at this point. But indeed after several months users find themselves with a rather old version...

07ee62eb9 is Jan 18. So yes, it is outdated. From the path it seems as though your IfcOpenShell is on your system (i.e. not tied to FreeCAD). You can upgrade using these instructions https://blenderbi

@Moult Thanks, I am trying to check whilst I see your remarks above, not sure the correct way to do it though at the moment. referring to FreeCAD wiki https://wiki.freecad.org/IfcOpenShell

If it doesn't, that means FreeCAD perhaps ships an outdated version of IfcOpenShell. That functionality was added a few months ago. I'm not sure how FreeCAD bundles IfcOpenShell.

@Moult Seems not working in FreeCAD ?

Ping @yorik you might want to delete https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob/master/src/Mod/Arch/Presets/pset_definitions.csv and use the IfcOpenShell util instead that way it is always up to date.

I'd just like to emphasize there are two aspects here: memory to simply open a model, and memory to process its geometry. In the case of https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/issues/2025 this r

@Marcus Wow...BlenderBIM, FreeCAD, IFC.js IfcOpenShell. These I guess are the "Turing Complete" of OpenBIM in AEC ?