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Petru Conduraru
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Footings are authored two ways with different local axis conventions. Beam-like footings (STRIP_FOOTING, FOOTING_BEAM) are a profile extruded along local Z, so Length is local Z and the cross section sits on local X (Width, horizontal) and local Y (Height, vertical). Slab-like footings (PAD_FOOTING, PILE_CAP) have their footprint on local X/Y and their thickness (Height) on local Z. The engine rule set is keyed per IfcFooting and cannot branch on predefined type, so the previous static rule (Height=net_get_z, Length=net_get_max_xy, Width=null) swapped Length and Height for beam-like footings and never emitted Width. Add predefined-type-aware get_footing_length/width/height to the IfcOpenShell and Blender calculators, and point the IfcFooting rule at them in all four IFC4/IFC4X3 ios/Blender rule files. Confirmed by authoring footings through the real Bonsai generators and measuring world-axis orientation: a beam-like footing with a 0.3 wide by 0.6 tall cross section and 6.0 run reports Length 6.0, Width 0.3, Height 0.6, with the 0.3 physically horizontal and 0.6 physically vertical; a 2.0x1.5x0.3 pad reports Length 2.0, Width 1.5, Height 0.3. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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Contents
| 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* |