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In this blog post, I will show you how to download an IFC file that you have generated using Python and IfcOpenShell WebAssembly in Pyodide. This is a question that a user on GitHub recently asked, and someone suggested a helpful answer on Stack Overflow that I will share with you. You can follow along using the code example here on Github. IfcOpenShell WebAssembly is a library that allows you to create and manipulate IFC files in the browser using Python....

Is it possible to draw proper IFC walls in a web browser? Yes! And in this tutorial I want to show you how. If you haven’t seen the previous tutorial yet on creating a simple IFC wall using IfcOpenShell WebAssembly, I suggest you check that out first, since we will skip over some of the basics in this tutorial and jump to the good stuff. If you want to follow along and play with the code yourself, you can find it here on Github....

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a simple wall using IfcOpenShell WebAssembly. We will be using some Python, Javascript, HTML and a dash of CSS. I won’t be explaining the complete basics of these technologies in this video because I want to focus on IfcOpenShell WebAssembly. However, if you would like me to create content showing how Python, Javascript and other programming languages can be used with OpenBIM, please let me know....

What is IfcOpenShell WebAssembly and why should you care about it? IfcOpenShell is an open source IFC toolkit and geometry engine. It allows you to read, write, and modify Building Information Models using IFC. It’s the software library behind an up and coming project called BlenderBIM. Why is IfcOpenShell WebAssembly such a big deal? It’s IfcOpenShell compiled to run in your browser at near native speed using WebAssembly. In other words, the full power of IfcOpenShell running in your browser, with no server-side code, it’s all running locally in your browser....