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by pmayrgundter 895 days ago
That's really interesting about Github-based versioning. My company (bldrs.ai) makes a webapp that views IFC (soon STEP) and has github integration, so any *.ifc path on GH can be pasted into our search for viz.

I'm not seeing any IFC files on Wikihouse repos, but they look old (https://github.com/wikihouse). Do you know where they're hosting?
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ivyirwin 895 days ago
Oh wow, you just sent me down a really intriguing path. I was not familiar with IFC, but looking more into that now. No, it does not look like their repo [0] has IFC files, but I don't imagine it would be that difficult to export the additional needed file information.

[0] https://github.com/wikihouseproject/Skylark/tree/main/SKYLAR...

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pmayrgundter 895 days ago
Their site does have IFC for that project tho and I've loaded it in Bldrs, so seems fine there.

Yeah, IFC is neat. It's actually a dialect of STEP, so able to carry the geometry and tons of BIM metadata. We've estimated the spec is ~7k pages printed. It's like an abstract toolkit for working with building codes

Happy to chat more too. We have our project Discord and DMs on Twitter

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