Better material assignment for compound objects (IfcWindow)

[Frederick-G764]

First of all, thanks for the absolut amazing work. Is there any way to sperate an object like a window? So that afterwards we have a frame and the window glas als separate objects?

[berry4u]

Thanks for sharing your work. Have you continued this work (I presume related to your PhD) ? Is there some way to share your wrapping project. I'm involved in BIM research too and it would be very useful form me. BN

[helpsterTee]

@tom2drake: only if it's defined like that in the IFC file. I'm currently assigning the material to the whole IfcWindow. It would be possible with IfcBuildingProxyElements.

@berry4u: The library uses IfcEngine which is commercial. I have to rework this to XBim in the near future. So this project is not dead, I'm just occupied with my new job at the moment ;) But then it also would be possible to reuse existing color information from the IFC file.

[DevPaulVarghese]

Hi, thank you for your amazing work. I just wanted to know what the status is of the issues and tasks that are yet to be completed?

[helpsterTee]

Well, XBim and Unity together seems to be a trainwreck. I've tested and it had several issues.

Unity Reflect should bring support for Autodesk Revit: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/06/05/unity-reflect-bim-to-real-time-3d-in-one-click-for-better-design-decisions/

For IFC files, I'll write a webservice parser. That way XBim's .NET stuff and unity's won't get confused by each other.

Most likely something along the lines of https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-api/overview/getting-started-with-aspnet-web-api/tutorial-your-first-web-api

[DevPaulVarghese]

Aah, so will you be implementing XBim library for the Unity-IFCEngine Project such that you can create a web-application of the build using a .NET application correct? Or am I slight mistaken?

[helpsterTee]

Nah, it will be two applications. XBim .NET with a webservice and Unity-IFCEngine calling the webservice for geometry and metadata.