BlenderBIM Add-on/BlenderBIM Costing

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Costing & Scheduling Video Demonstration -

Live Session 1 15/05/2021

Main Topics:

1. How to convert IFC2x3 to IFC4
2. Discovering the Scheduling Tools
3. Discovering the Costing Tools
4. Discovering the Quantity Take Off Tools

Project Setup and Costing Tools

Project setup

• Option 1: Native authoring of IFC in BlenderBIM

You can find the command in Blender under Scene > Building Information Modeling > System Setup. This will create a basic spatial tree. It will create a tree of collections with the structure IfcProject > IfcSite > IfcBuilding > IfcStorey This is merely for convenience instead of having to create it all by yourself, since all IFC exports require a valid spatial tree. You can see the tree of collections in the outliner when this is done.

Quick Project Setup, Schema and Data directories

• Option 2: Importing an .ifc file

1. Go to File --> Import --> Industry Foundation Classes
2. Navigate to your .ifc file
3. Click Import

Creating a Cost Schedule

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Creating Cost Items

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Editing attributes

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Creating Cost Item Values

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Creating Cost Item Quantities

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Assigning Building Elements to Cost Items

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Deriving Quantities for Cost Items

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Copying Cost Items Values

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Caclulating Cost Item Values of Parent Cost Items

1 - What Are Component Values? 2 - Calculating overall cost based on nested cost items

Part II: Quantity Take off Tools

BlenderBIM Quantity Take off Tools

--> derive dimensions --> derive formwork areas

Sample Files

- .ifc template for costing