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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon yorikvanhavre

Issues while getting started

Open Vanuan opened this issue 7 years ago • 5 comments

Here my adventure of using OpenBIM functionality for the first time.

  1. I've started bimserver in server mode in docker (this was a pain on its own). Created a project in it. Don't know whether I should create ifc3something or ifc4. Apparently ifc3something works better.
  2. Next I've tried to save something. Turns out that I need ifcopenshell. After figuring out what it was, unpacked it into my freecad mod directory in home.
  3. Next I've been hit by buiding part issue
  4. Next thing I noticed it throws a stack trace when saving. Something like KeyError: 'result' in here: https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/WebTools/blob/c1a2561471d13806e5d3af3ab929864c21fefed5/BIMServer.py#L337
  5. After fixing KeyError it started fail silently with "File upload failed", so not much help
  6. After printing response I saw the error was something like "Checkin in progress, topicId: 35". Still don't know what it is. Checkin is some kind of locking mechanism so that nobody can upload new revisions while another is in progress. But BIMserver can't detect that checkin has failed. And I can't find any information on how to abort it or configure checkin timeout. And why checkin has failed?
  7. Besides that it can't get a list of revisions. Something to do with "'ascii' codec can't decode byte ...".

Are any of those issues known? What's working? Is there any tutorial? Maybe it's just version incompatibility between WebTools and OpenBIM? I'm using latest of both.

Vanuan avatar Oct 25 '18 14:10 Vanuan

@Vanuan is this still an issue?

luzpaz avatar Jun 14 '19 12:06 luzpaz

If you're asking whether I was able to run WebTools, the anwser is no. Is there any documentation? Maybe I'm missing some important installation steps? I'm using linux.

Vanuan avatar Jun 14 '19 14:06 Vanuan

@Vanuan would you mind posting to the freecad forums. The reason is that yorik, author of this workbench (And one of the core devs of freecad) is super busy. It would be easier and facilitate faster support if you posted to the forum, then everything is in one place. If you do, please x-post this ticket there. thanks!

luzpaz avatar Jun 14 '19 16:06 luzpaz

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=38292

Vanuan avatar Aug 02 '19 00:08 Vanuan

The BIMServer API issue should be solved by #6 Now still need to look at the BuildingPart issue...

yorikvanhavre avatar Aug 30 '19 20:08 yorikvanhavre