Questions tagged [bim]

BIM stands for Building Information Modeling and describes a continuous process that supports planning, building, and maintenance of the built environment using informatics.

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How to exclude door sweep from bounding box using revit API

I have a revit file in which there are a few doors. When i try to extract the bounding box of the door then the sweep of the door is also included in the bounding box which i dont want. I just want the bounding box corresponding to the door itself.…
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BIM Model clipping issues in Unity 2020

I have BIM model that I am using in 2018 version of Unity engine. When import the model into my project on 2019 OR 2020 version of the Unity engine, clippings on certain surfaces of the model occurs. Has anyone encountered this issue with Unity…
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IfcOpenShell: Segfault when trying to return a dictionary containing ifcopenshell objects and their corresponding shapes

im trying to extract all the IfcProduct-shapes from a ifc file and return them (with their corresponding Product) to another part of my program. The problem is that when i try to return a dictionary containing those objects with their corresponding…
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How do I create and manipulate a Table property for an IFC object using Xbim?

I am working off of the basic example for amending data (https://github.com/xBimTeam/XbimEssentials). The only thing I'm changing is within the code below, where I want to add an IfcPropertyTableValue instead of an IfcPropertySingleValue. This code…
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stats.js shows FPS 0~2, render movement too slow

i'm beginner for three.js also using it for BIM project, when i load a gltf file of ~25mb i can barely move the whole object and stats.js monitor shows fps of 0~2 at max gltf file :…
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BIM model host and render

I am planning to set up server to parse and host BIM models and access the specific models form the client. Expectation: I should be able to host many BIM models (100s), preferably IFC, and there are many clients whos accessing this models…
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How to initialize Autodesk Forge 3D viewer correctly from BIM BCF Topic Viewpoint?

I am trying to initialize the Autodesk Forge 3D viewer correctly based on BIM topic-visualization data from a BCF file. I have uploaded the 3D model (IFC) to Autodesk API, it has been processed and i can visualize/navigate the model successfully…
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Convert or export Autodesk Revit model to USDZ

Does anybody know a way to either 1) export a 3D Revit model as a USDZ format (ie via a Plugin) or 2) convert a Revit model (from either RVT, DWG, DGN, FBX, IFC, NWC, DXF, SAT...) to a USDZ format? I can only find online tools which offer to…
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Tool with similar IFC processing capabilties as BIMServer

I used BIMServer to create datamodels out of IFC elements. Due to issues with it I need to switch the tool I process the IFC file with. The big pro on BIMServer was that I did not need to know how the geometry is created and did not need to generate…
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Null pointer exception while retrieving all instances of a class with the BIMserver Java client

I am very new to BIMserver and I am trying to get instances of a specific class of the IFC I have checked in, using the Java client library and IfcModelInterface. Here is the piece of code : IfcModelInterface model = client.getModel(project,…
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Revit API. ReferenceIntersector with TopografySurfaces

Does anyone know if ReferenceIntersector works with TopografySurfaces? Cannot make it work. I need to find a point on the surface based on a intersection with a line.
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Repeated error when trying to run Admixture with .bed file

I was sent a .bed file with the corresponding .fam and .bim files to run in terminal using ADMIXTURE. Initially, when running Admixture on the .bed file, it would fail and the error said "PLINK Input file error". I tried to work around using the…
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How to create element with arbitrary shape using xbim toolkit?

I just started using xbim library, but there are lack of manual. I've already checked some example like this. But there aren't enough to create elements I wanted. I would like to solve following problem as first step. Creating walls for simple…
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From BIM model to Unity for VR

Is there any method or aproach,apart from bruteforce(doing everything by hand) to get a BIM model from Revit into Unity's FBX without any details concerning the number of polygons? For example: theres a lot of office furniture that has a lot of…
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A C# program using XBIM library that finds from IFC the closest space to a given point

I am using the following C# code to find space information to elements by coordinates. This is my first BIM program. It works well, but sometimes the points fall outside the room boundary. I need a program to find nearest space to these points. It…
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