Introduction

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Community IFC Conversion Pipeline

A pipeline of open source CLI tools that converts medium-to-large .ifc files to .xkt.

Features

Converts medium-to-large .ifc files to .xkt
All tools open source under AGPL3 and MIT
Creates intermediate .glb and .json metadata files on disk
View the .xkt or .glb in a xeokit Viewer with XKTLoaderPlugin or GLTFLoaderPlugin

Tools used

IfcConvert (MIT, from IfcOpenShell)
xeokit-metadata (MIT License, from BIMSpot)
convert2xkt (AGPL3, from xeokit SDK)

More info

Tutorial: Converting IFC Models to XKT using Open Source Tools - A Simpler Pipeline

xeokit IFC Conversion Pipeline

A single open source Node.js-based CLI script that converts small .ifc files to .xkt in a single step. Internally uses web-ifc to parse the .ifc.

Features

Converts small .ifc files to .xkt
Open source under AGPL3
Creates no intermediate files
View the .xkt in a xeokit Viewer using an XKTLoaderPlugin

Tools used

convert2xkt (AGPL3, from xeokit SDK)

More info

Tutorial: Converting Models to XKT with convert2xkt

CxConverter IFC Conversion Pipeline

A high-performance pipeline that converts large .ifc files to .xkt.

Features

Converts large .ifc files to .xkt
Includes proprietary and open source CLI tools
Creates intermediate .glb and .json metadata files
View the .xkt or .glb in a xeokit Viewer with XKTLoaderPlugin or GLTFLoaderPlugin

Tools used

ifc2gltf (Proprietary, from Creoox AG)
convert2xkt (AGPL3, from xeokit SDK)

More info

Tutorial: Converting IFC to XKT using ifc2gltf