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In my experience more often than not it'll do that for you and run the code to give you the answer. E.g just now I ran: ~~~ What's the inverse of this matrix? [[0.0759688880587972,…

Well there's this https://www.reddit.com/r/samsunggalaxy/comments/10f0x0n/z_fl... which I'm also affected by. I've ducktaped the backside to prevent my muscle memory from constantl…

> They are one of the oldest parties Founded 6 February 2013; 11 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany [Granted, many of the current political parties in …

I think the first hand distinction is questionable, e.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing-in-itself We can also only perceive through our sensory and neural pathways. And with mu…

IfcOpenShell - https://ifcopenshell.org - https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell An open-source toolkit for developing digital platforms in the built environment. With IfcOpe…

It does, when you save. Under export, there is also a "Plain SVG" option which excludes the xmlns:inkscape and xmlns:sodipodi namespaces and therefore eliminates quite a bit.

Have a look at https://openifcmodel.cs.auckland.ac.nz/ https://github.com/buildingSMART/Sample-Test-Files/ https://duraark.github.io/duraark-data/

There's some great resources online, such as https://www.youtube.com/@IfcArchitect

Let me try to explain it in a way that the acronym does make sense. For ages people have exchanged information about buildings in 2d and non-semantic line drawings with only an imp…

I know that Autodesk (and other construction software vendors) aim to do something akin to this to organize their data API https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/fdx/v1/developers_guide/…

This is a difficult question and the the history to all of this predates my involvement. Indeed, a fair amount of people believe that the IFC is intentionally unnecessarily complex…

It's also quite fun! There's a lot of computational geometry involved and you have a chance to positively affect the built environment around you. We're quite close now to deliveri…

SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote / europe / netherlands We're hiring for validate.buildingsmart.org In the construction sector we've long communicated using drawings primarily. A recent…

Consciousness is simply a very useful evolutionary trait (same as ability to fly or having sharp teeth) because it allows to better plan ahead and reflect and therefore survive - o…

Rendering is maybe not the only aspect of 3d engine. The robustness and ease of implementation of boolean operations or other kind of volumetric analysis has for me been one of the…

True. Came here to say that. QCAD is somewhat of an alternative to AutoCAD. OpenCASCADE is a foss alternative to e.g ACIS or Parasolid. It's potentially important as there aren't t…

What I didn't see discussed is VCs focussing on open source (quick search returns e.g https://oss.capital/ ). Does anybody experience with or thoughts on this? I read a lot of comm…

I agree. Also keep in mind people of all ages are allowed to ride bikes, which is luckily not the case for cars. This source does say elderly and children are more likely to be par…

There's a Blender addon under development for BIM called https://blenderbim.org/ they're looking for funding Blender's user interface is fully scriptable in Python, which means you…

OCCT is both large and also takes a long time to compile. With conda-forge there is a good mechanism for CI/CD builds of this complexity. Other OpenCASCADE-based python modules (py…

Also check out BlenderBIM (I work on the umbrella organization it is part of) it has really comprehensive covering of IFC (using what they call native IFC authoring) including thin…

I mean, it depends, CGAL for example, which I'd consider a high quality software library, uses exceptions for their exact number type to redo the calculation using more precision w…

The EU is very visible in their research programmes, see for example https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en and https://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm And one of th…

There is also IfcOWL, the RDF (semantic web / linked data) representation of IFC. It'll allow you to use standard tooling (e.g. SPARQL and storage engines). https://technical.build…