Bump IfcConvert documentation including .json and .rdb support

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Dion Moult
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+=========================+=========================+======================+
| .ifc | .obj, .dae, .glb, .stp, | IfcConvert |
| | .igs, .xml, .svg, .h5, | |
| | .ttl, .ifc | |
| | .ttl, .ifc, .rdb, | |
| | .json (xeokit) | |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+----------------------+
| .ifc | .dae, .abc, .usd, .obj, | Bonsai_ |
| | .ply, .stl, .fbx, .glb, | |
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ CLI Manual
$ IfcConvert -h
IfcOpenShell IfcConvert 0.8.1-c49ca69 (OCC 7.8.1)
IfcOpenShell IfcConvert 0.8.4-158fe92 (OCC 7.8.1)
Usage: IfcConvert [options] <input.ifc> [<output>]
Converts (the geometry in) an IFC file into one of the following formats:
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ CLI Manual
.stp STEP Standard for the Exchange of Product Data
.igs IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
.xml XML Property definitions and decomposition tree
.json JSON Property definitions and decomposition tree in xeokit json format
.rdb RocksDB RocksDB Key-Value store serialization of IFC data
.svg SVG Scalable Vector Graphics (2D floor plan)
.h5 HDF Hierarchical Data Format storing positions, normals and indices
.ttl TTL/WKT RDF Turtle with Well-Known-Text geometry
@@ -108,7 +110,8 @@ CLI Manual
Geometry options:
--kernel arg (=opencascade) Geometry kernel to use (opencascade,
cgal, cgal-simple).
cgal, cgal-simple, hybrid-cgal-simple-o
pencascade).
-j [ --threads ] arg (=1) Number of parallel processing threads
for geometry interpretation.
--center-model Centers the elements by applying the
@@ -118,6 +121,11 @@ CLI Manual
--center-model-geometry Centers the elements by applying the
center point of all mesh vertices as an
offset.
--model-offset arg Applies an arbitrary offset of form
'x;y;z' to all placements.
--model-rotation arg Applies an arbitrary quaternion
rotation of form 'x;y;z;w' to all
placements.
--include arg Specifies that the instances that match
a specific filtering criteria are to be
included in the geometrical output:
@@ -207,13 +215,12 @@ CLI Manual
of surface normals, even if the faces
are not properly oriented in the IFC
file.
--length-unit arg (= 1)
--angle-unit arg (= 1)
--precision arg (= 1e-05)
--dimensionality arg (= 1) Specifies whether to include curves
and/or surfaces and solids in the
output result. Defaults to only
surfaces and solids.
surfaces and solids (SURFACES_AND_SOLID
S). Other possible values are CURVES,
CURVES_SURFACES_AND_SOLIDS.
--layerset-first Assigns the first layer material of the
layerset to the complete product.
--disable-boolean-result Specifies whether to disable the
@@ -262,9 +269,11 @@ CLI Manual
geometrical output back to the unit of
measure in which it is defined in the
IFC file. Default is to use meters.
--context-ids arg
--context-ids arg
--context-ids arg
--context-ids arg List of comma separated context ids to
process - e.g. '15,29' (no quotes
needed).
--context-types arg Currently option has no effect.
--context-identifiers arg Currently option has no effect.
--iterator-output arg (= 0)
--disable-opening-subtractions Specifies whether to disable the
boolean subtraction of
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geometry output.
--circle-segments arg (= 16) Number of segments to approximate full
circles in CGAL kernel.
--cgal-smooth-angle-degrees arg (= -1)
Angle in degrees under which adjacent
facets will have averaged vertex
normals in CGAL output. NB irrespective
of original IFC geometry types.
Defaults to -1 to disable smoothing.
--keep-bounding-boxes Default is to removes IfcBoundingBox
from model prior to converting
geometry.Setting this option disables
that behaviour
--compute-curvature Specifies whether function_item_evaluat
or.evaluate() computes curvature.
--function-step-type arg (= 0) Indicates the method used for defining
step size when evaluating
function-based curves. Provides
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parallel. May decrease performance, but
also decrease output size (in the
future)
--model-offset arg Applies an arbitrary offset of form
'x,y,z' to all placements.
--model-rotation arg Applies an arbitrary quaternion
rotation of form 'x,y,z,w' to all
placements.
--permissive-shape-reuse Traverse geometry-level transformations
and apply to product-level placement in
order to increase reuse of geometries
--triangulation-type arg (= 0) Type of planar facet to be emitted
--cgal-original-edges Try to emit original edge face boundary
edges instead of recomputed ones based
on face normal. Falls back to
triangulated data in case of boolean
operands and faces with holes.
--cache-shapes Experimental as not all topology hash
functions fully implemented
--max-offset arg Maximum translation offset to be
observed after which median offset in
model gets removed and logged. Requires
--no-parallel-mapping.
--max-offset-deviation arg To retain field of view, completely
remove elements outside of the median
offset. Requires --no-parallel-mapping.
Serialization options:
--bounds arg Specifies the bounding rectangle, for
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--wkt-use-section Use a geometrical section rather than
full polyhedral output and footprint in
TTL WKT
--separate-z-up-node Introduce a separate Z-Up node into the
GlTF hierarchy instead of multiplying
the transform into the root node
matrices