Plug-in for freecad and blenderbim

[Isaina]

Hi

can you make gui for two most used IFC authoring open tools so we can use git for collaboration

best regards

[theoryshaw]

It's already added to Bonsai (formally Blenderbim): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRCtyrm2REs

[Isaina]

Can you also make into freecad yes now i see needs to be ported on python

[theoryshaw]

Might want to put a feature request on freecad's issue tracker

[brunopostle]

@Isaina it would be nice to port to python, but it isn't really necessary. The way that git implements three-way-merging means that the tool has to be a standalone executable (basically you configure git to use a custom 'mergetool' whenever a normal merge fails).

On systems with a built-in perl interpreter (Mac, Linux typically) ifcmerge should work without problems, on Windows the tool needs to be compiled into an EXE file, so rewriting in python wouldn't help. Also I believe python has been removed from Mac default installations, so the perl version is probably more portable.

FreeCAD/FreeCAD#18112