Create a compelling interface and functionality for the IfcOpenShell WASM / pyodide module

[aothms]

Outline

IfcOpenShell is a software module for BIM/AEC (Building Information Modelling, Architecture Engineering and Construction) with extensive functionality implemented in python for the wide variety of multi-disciplinary tasks in construction. Therefore we have primarily looked at pyodide (a WASM distribution of CPython) to bring ifcopenshell to the client-side web.

There is now a demo-application online, the applicant is expected to enrich this demo-application with some of the existing ifcopenshell functionality and at the same time work on a more idiomatic Javascript API that wraps the IfcOpenShell objects as they are proxied by pyodide.

http://wasm.ifcopenshell.org/

Expected Outcome

Enrich the demo application with, e.g:

• Rich parametric authoring
• Validation (IDS, schema, custom, ...)
• Some of the other pre-existing functional modules, e.g clash detection (geometric interference of building elements), costing, scheduling
• Something else :)

Skills

Python, JavaScript

Difficulty

Difficulty and scope based on applicant interests

Size

Difficulty and scope based on applicant interests

Additional Information

• Potential mentor(s): @aothms
• Organization website: https://ifcopenshell.org
• Communication channels: https://osarch.org/chat

[jayzalani]

hey did like work on this together! Hi myself jay

[Moult]

G'day! The best thing to do is reach out to Thomas Krijnen @aothms in https://osarch.org/chat

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-- Dion Moult