From 71d469a2711896447918116a0485f5c191b0a34f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrej730 <azhilenkov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:56:02 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] Bonsai - use main version part to avoid creating too many
 IfcApplications

---
 src/bonsai/bonsai/bim/handler.py  | 3 ++-
 src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/blender.py | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/bonsai/bonsai/bim/handler.py b/src/bonsai/bonsai/bim/handler.py
index 2a90ecdcbc..5f5b65095f 100644
--- a/src/bonsai/bonsai/bim/handler.py
+++ b/src/bonsai/bonsai/bim/handler.py
@@ -259,7 +259,8 @@ def redo_post(scene: bpy.types.Scene) -> None:
 
 def get_application(ifc: ifcopenshell.file) -> ifcopenshell.entity_instance:
     # TODO: cache this for even faster application retrieval. It honestly makes a difference on long scripts.
-    version = tool.Blender.get_bonsai_version()
+    # Use only main part from the version to avoid flooding advanced users projects with IfcApplications.
+    version = tool.Blender.get_bonsai_version().split("-")[0]
     for element in ifc.by_type("IfcApplication"):
         if element.ApplicationIdentifier == "Bonsai" and element.Version == version:
             return element
diff --git a/src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/blender.py b/src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/blender.py
index 5fcde49d0c..6317c9cb1a 100644
--- a/src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/blender.py
+++ b/src/bonsai/bonsai/tool/blender.py
@@ -1268,6 +1268,7 @@ class Blender(bonsai.core.tool.Blender):
     @classmethod
     @cache
     def get_bonsai_version(cls) -> str:
+        """E.g. `0.8.3-alpha250617-15453a9`"""
         version = None
 
         # Try to retrieve actual version for live-dev environment.