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IfcOpenShell Scripting Tutorial

Preface and introduction

On these pages small snippets of code are presented that help you to automate tasks working with Industry Foundation Classes models. It is targeted at building domain experts (architects, civil engineers etc.) who have little or no background knowledge in coding. It uses the IfcOpenShell toolkit by Thomas Krijnen. In particular, an interactive viewer is used that allows for quick feedback between the interactions of the scripts with the model by visualizing the results. A regular Python tutorial is strongly recommended. There are many excellent, free resources on the web:

• The brief Python.org tutorial
• A byte into Python

An interactive tutorial can be found on The Code Academy

For further examples and documentation of processing IFC files with IfcOpenShell, also refer to the Academy.ifceopenshell.org