Editing IfcPlusPlus

[[IfcPlusPlus|IFC++]] or [[IfcPlusPlus|IfcPlusPlus]] is a C++ open source (MIT license) library from the [[IfcPlusPlus|IfcQuery]] project for reading, writing, and viewing [[IFC|IFC]] files.

The IFC++ library can be used for general purpose, and it also includes a sample IFC visualization application. This viewer is based on Qt 5 and OpenSceneGraph (OSG), and can load big IFC files very fast, and thus can be used to compare the performance of other free IFC viewers, like [[Blender]] and [[FreeCAD]], which internally use the [[IfcOpenShell|IfcOpenShell]] library.

= Installation =

The IFC++ distribution is provided as source code, so to use the library and the sample viewer, the code must be compiled.

To learn more about installing IFC++, visit the page in the FreeCAD wiki: [https://wiki.freecadweb.org/IfcPlusPlus IfcPlusPlus].

= Viewers =

* The IFC++ distribution includes a sample viewer in source code that uses the IFC++ library, and that is compiled together with it.

* A second viewer exists with the generic name of "'''IfcQuery'''", that uses pre-compiled IFC++, Qt, and OSG libraries, and is only available for Windows. This viewer is more complete than the sample viewer included with the source code of IFC++, but is not open source. It is free for use and available by downloading the ''SimpleViewerExampleQt.zip'' package from [http://www.ifcquery.com/ ifcquery.com], and running ''SimpleViewerExampleQt.exe''. This viewer is self-contained, everything that it requires to run is included in the ''.zip'' archive.

''Note:'' in common usage, the names "IfcQuery", "IFC++", and "IfcPlusPlus" may be used interchangeably to refer to the same thing, the C++ library or more specifically the IFC viewer.

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-[[IfcPlusPlus|IFC++]] or [[IfcPlusPlus|IfcPlusPlus]] is a C++ open source (MIT license) library from the [[IfcPlusPlus|IfcQuery]] project for reading, writing, and viewing [[Industry_Foundation_Classes_(IFC)|IFC]] files.
 The IFC++ library can be used for general purpose, and it also includes a sample IFC visualization application. This viewer is based on Qt 5 and OpenSceneGraph (OSG), and can load big IFC files very fast, and thus can be used to compare the performance of other free IFC viewers, like [[Blender]] and [[FreeCAD]], which internally use the [[IfcOpenShell|IfcOpenShell]] library.