BlenderBIM Add-on - File size:
- 71 MB
- Date added:
- Apr 01, 2023 | Last update check: 1 minute ago
- Licence:
- Open-source / Free
- Runs on:
- Blender
BlenderBIM Add-on is a free and open-source add-on that provides OpenBIM authoring capabilities to Blender. Experience rapid free-form and parametric modeling in Blender. Create data-rich IFC4 data to future-proof your BIM data and integrate with the rest of the OpenBIM ecosystem. BlenderBIM is packaged as a Blender add-on, so installation is the same as any other Blender add-on.
Blender and the BlenderBIM Add-on are free software. There aren’t licensing fees or vendor lock-in. Blender has a thriving community. The BlenderBIM Add-on is built by volunteers on the IfcOpenShell project.
Note: BlenderBIM Add-on is under active development, and changes very fast. It is still alpha software.
BlenderBIM and Revit comparison
Autodesk Revit is currently the most common BIM authoring tool by marketshare. Despite this, it is not necessarily the most powerful geometric modeling package, and nor is it necessarily the most powerful BIM data authoring tool.
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- Geometric modeling abilities
- Unlike Blender, Revit has very limited modeling capabilities.
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- IFC authoring
- Once it becomes a priority to ensure that your BIM data is actually correctly authored so that it can be useful outside the Autodesk ecosystem, or simply last longer than 3 years after the building is built, then it’s time to look for ways to author IFC as natively as possible.
What’s new in version 0.0.2:
- Be less strict about requiring BIM objects to be selected when exporting, to make it more user-friendly. Now you can just bulk select everything.
- New workaround for importing materials from Revit, since Revit has a funny way of storing materials. Models being imported from Revit will now be much more colourful.
- You can now create geometry and export spatial elements, such as an IfcSpace.
- BIMTester now has a variety of new unit tests.
About BlenderBIM Community
The BlenderBIM Add-on would not be possible without dedicated community of open-source developers, volunteers, and industry members.
Gallery
BlenderBIM Add-on Demo: Section Planes. Video demonstrates how to use section planes in the BlenderBIM Add-on. Section planes can be added, removed, and applied to a subset of objects.
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Example of construction documentation produced with BlenderBIM Add-on. You don’t require Autodesk software. ©BlenderBIM
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