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Petru Conduraru
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brunopostle reported that a curtain wall used as a standalone room side (not decomposed into IfcMember/IfcPlate children) was invisible to space/boundary generation, since only IfcWall, IfcColumn, IfcMember, IfcVirtualElement, and IfcPlate were treated as bounding classes. CyrilWaechter concretely proposed adding curtain wall to that detection list, while explicitly leaving structural elements (a separate, still-open design question) alone. IfcCurtainWall is not a schema subtype of IfcWall, so it was silently skipped by every class list that checked "is this a wall/column/etc." Three separate lists needed it: - tool.Spatial.is_bounding_class, used by "Generate Space" (cursor cutting-plane detection). - tool.Spatial.get_boundary_elements, used by "Generate Spaces From Walls" (bulk perimeter detection). - AddBoundary.auto_generate_boundaries' building_elements gather, used by "Add Boundary" when auto-detecting nearby elements for a single selected IfcSpace. The separate manual AddBoundary path (selecting an IfcSpace plus one IfcElement directly) was already class-agnostic and did not need a change; verified live that it already creates a boundary against an IfcCurtainWall today. Verified live in headless Blender: a synthetic 4m x 4m room with 3 IfcWalls and one standalone IfcCurtainWall (single object, not aggregated into members/plates) produced 0 spaces via "Generate Spaces From Walls" before this fix, and 1 correctly-bounded space after. The manual "Add Boundary" (IfcSpace + IfcCurtainWall selected) path created an IfcRelSpaceBoundary against the curtain wall both before and after, confirming it needed no change. IfcWindow remains untouched; CyrilWaechter was explicit that whether to auto-detect standalone windows/structural elements is a separate, unresolved design question. Fixes #3995 Generated with the assistance of an AI coding tool.
IfcOpenShell
IfcOpenShell is an open source (LGPL) software library for working with Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). Complete parsing support is provided for IFC2x3 TC1, IFC4 Add2 TC1, IFC4x1, IFC4x2, and IFC4x3 Add2. Extensive geometric support is implemented for the IFC releases IFC2x3 TC1 and IFC4 Add2 TC1. Extending with support for arbitrary IFC schemas is possible at compile-time when using C++ and at run-time when using Python.
In addition to a C++ and Python API, IfcOpenShell comes with an ecosystem of tools, notably including IfcConvert (an application to convert IFC models to other formats), Bonsai (an add-on to Blender providing a graphical IFC authoring platform), and many other libraries, CLI apps, and more. Support is also provided for auxiliary standards such as BCF and IDS.
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| Name | Description | License | Service |
|---|---|---|---|
| bcf | Library to read and write BCF-XML and query OpenCDE BCF-API modules | LGPL-3.0-or-later |   |
| bonsai | Add-on to Blender providing a graphical native IFC authoring platform | GPL-3.0-or-later |    |
| bsdd | Library to query the bSDD API | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifc2ca | Utility to convert IFC structural analysis models to Code_Aster | LGPL-3.0-or-later | |
| ifc4d | Convert to and from IFC and project management software | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifc5d | Report and optimise cost information from IFC | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcbimtester | Wrapper for Gherkin based unit testing for IFC models | LGPL-3.0-or-later | |
| ifcblender | Historic Blender IFC import add-on | LGPL-3.0-or-later* | |
| ifccityjson | Convert CityJSON to IFC | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcclash | Clash detection library and CLI app | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcconvert | CLI app to convert IFC to many other formats | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |   |
| ifccsv | Library and CLI app to export and import schedules from IFC | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcdiff | Compare changes between IFC models | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcedit | CLI wrapper for ifcopenshell.api IFC model mutation functions | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcfm | Extract IFC data for FM handover requirements | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcmax | Historic extension for IFC support in 3DS Max | LGPL-3.0-or-later* | |
| ifcmcp | MCP server for querying and editing IFC building models | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcopenshell-python | Python library for IFC manipulation | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |         |
| ifcpatch | Utility to run pre-packaged scripts to manipulate IFCs | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcquery | CLI tool for querying and inspecting IFC building models | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifcsverchok | Blender Add-on for visual node programming with IFC | GPL-3.0-or-later |  |
| ifctester | Library, CLI and webapp for IDS model auditing | LGPL-3.0-or-later |  |
The IfcOpenShell C++ codebase is split into multiple interal libraries:
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| ifcgeom | Internal library for IfcOpenShell | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |
| ifcgeom_schema_agnostic | Internal library for IfcOpenShell | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |
| ifcgeomserver | Internal library for IfcOpenShell | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |
| ifcjni | Internal library for IfcOpenShell | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |
| ifcparse | Internal library for IfcOpenShell | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |
| ifcwrap | Internal library for IfcOpenShell | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |
| qtviewer | Internal library for IfcOpenShell | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |
| serializers | Internal library for IfcOpenShell | LGPL-3.0-or-later* |