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brunopostle / homemaker-addon

Design buildings the pointy-clicky way, a blender add-on that transforms spatial geometry into IFC building models
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Add-on usage #33

Open seghier opened 2 years ago

seghier commented 2 years ago

Hello This addon don't work with blender 3.0

Update: it installed now from the link https://github.com/brunopostle/homemaker-addon/releases/tag/2021-12-11 Is there any tutorial how to use it?

brunopostle commented 2 years ago

There are some videos in this YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/user/BrunoPostle/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0

..and some discussion about the tools here: https://community.osarch.org/discussion/539/homemaker-add-on/p1

..but basically you draw the outline of a building in 3d (currently you have to use metre units), where faces in the mesh represent walls, floors and roofs.

The add-on extracts a Topologic CellComplex from these faces. A CellComplex is like a blender manifold, except it can contain multiple closed cells within the outer shell, the cells become rooms in the building.

Then the CellComplex is analysed, and IFC Walls and Windows etc.. created using blenderbim.

The original mesh is hidden, so to continue working on the design you can: delete the IFC model in the outline and unhide the original mesh; or what I do is just undo with Ctrl-Z