Hi there,
I’m trying to open an IFC file in blender but I’m having some trouble, maybe any of you can help?
What I’ve done so far:
I have Blender 27.9b installed on my mac
I have downloaded the IFC openShell, I had some trouble adding it to blender but after a while I managed to install it (the 32 bit version). I have added it in the export/import and have enabled it there.
I can open the File Import Industry Foundation Classes IFC, and I can choose a file, but here it ends. There seems to be some kind of an error,
it says import error, no suitable image found, and wrong architecture
The IFC file I have was ment to be “for sketchup”, but that shouldn’t matter, right?
Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
Thank you
/christina
If you can link to a file, i can take a look at it.
Otherwise post Error Report here (copy/paste the text from Info Editor or take a screenshot of System Console with relevant text)
BTW
I never had any problems with importing .ifc format to blender (quite common for architectural competitions).
Hi, thanks for quick answer,
I realised that my version of Blender and the version of IFC openShell were not the same so I downloaded a slightly earlier version of Blender (2.78) and a version of IFC open Shell that is supposed to work with the 2.78.
Now I don’t get an error report anymore, but when I try to open an IFC file the mac rainbow ball just starts spinning and doesn’t stop. And doesn’t open the file.
I came to think of that the IFC file might possibly be made for PC? it seems to be an exec file when I look at it in Finder? Could this be the problem? (I’m on a mac)
at least it shouldn’t (suspicious)
To import in blender you use *.ifc.