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Question: How to develop and include a custom plugin #170

Open Noranius opened 3 years ago

Noranius commented 3 years ago

We would like to add a custom plugin to show visualization depending on related tasks and processes. However, I could not find any documentation about that and re engineering that from the code only would be quite time consuming. Is it possible to develop and include a self-written plugin into the xBIM Xplorer?

CBenghi commented 3 years ago

Hello,

the plugin solution is half baked and we don't have much documentation on that. What type of APIs would you need to have access to?

Switching entities on/off is not super trivial with the current layer-styler since entities are grouped, but you can easily write you own one that does not group entities to make show/hide easier.

Noranius commented 3 years ago

Exactly, I would need access to hide and show entities. Later on, it would be interesting to have access to generate entities. I could have done all this stuff by implementing my own layer-styler, but I thought that this stuff would be additionally to xBIM, hence, implementing an addon sounds better to me. However, if the plugin system is not available I can directly extend the xBIM Xplorer as well.