Connector between perl-Homemaker/urb and python-molior

[brunopostle]

The Homemaker evolutionary building design system has an entire IFC output pipeline that uses various perl modules (molior, File::IFC, File::DXF). Now that the Homemaker add-on has an equivalent python-based workflow, this can be adopted instead and a large amount of perl code discarded.

Advantages:

• By supplying CellComplex level geometry, the user has an option to modify and adapt, change styles etc.. in a pointy clicky manner before generating an IFC model
• The CellComplex geometry could be used as input for other tools such as Topologic Sverchok
• The old IFC pipeline generated IFC2x3 files, the new python module creates IFC4 data with a generally higher quality, and additional features such as Structural models etc...

The urb perl module would need a tool to convert a .dom file into a tagged Topologic CellComplex geometry. This can be in the form of a list of polygons for surfaces, and tagged centroid coordinates for spaces. Probable format is a JSON file.

[brunopostle]

This has been implemented in the form of a DOM to OBJ export, the Wavefront OBJ file can be imported into Blender and used as input for the Homemaker Topologise function.