BlenderBIM Add-on - File size:
- 91 MB
- Date added:
- Aug 30, 2020 | 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
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
- It would be somewhat unfair to compare Revit and Blender for modeling, as Revit has very limited modeling capabilities. However, Revit does have certain strengths.
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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.
For more information and comparison tables please visit https://blenderbim.org/blenderbim-vs-revit.html.
What’s new in version 0.0.200810:
- Better command line interface for IFC COBie tool
- IFC COBie now no longer creates CSVs if you only need an XLSX file
- IFC COBie now supports the ODS format, as well as XLSX and CSV, for more interoperability
- New GUI in the BlenderBIM Add-on to run IFC COBie
- IFC Patch can now be used as a library as well as a CLI
- New support for pythonocc-core 7.4.0
For a full list of improvements please visit https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=BlenderBIM_Add-on_Changelog#v0.0.200810.
About BlenderBIM Community
The BlenderBIM Add-on would not be possible without dedicated 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.
BlenderBIM Add-on screenshot. ©blenderbim.org
Example of construction documentation produced with BlenderBIM Add-on. You don’t require Autodesk software. ©blenderbim.org
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